“Absence of meaning: that is the key to barbarism. Has the century been a mere embodiment of an incoherent and violent tale? Maybe. But the mural of barbarities of the 20th century, immense and overloaded, cannot be described leaving aside the tangential but determining presence of a project of meaning or, better, of counter-meaning for contemporary history: communism; the materialization of this in a peculiar sociopolitical entity: the left; its manifestation in concepts through its own discourse: Marxism.”

Thus, in the face of the capitalist historical project, Bolívar Echeverría invites us to recover the loose threads of a Marxist discourse that renews the possibility of a critical consciousness and a revolutionary politics. In this compilation of essays, the philosopher's cardinal work, he proposes a reading of Capital that transcends Marxism petrified by dogmatism and supports another that, in the field of contemporary rebellion, discusses without reservations or concessions its contents and its structure as a discourse. .