Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez introduced in Mexico the renewal of Marxism sparked by the rediscovery of the young Marx, especially the manuscripts of 1844.

The work that we now offer to the reader in a new revised and expanded edition with an epilogue by the author masterfully guides us through Marx's first criticism of capitalist society and allows us to appreciate the relevance of the results that since then guided the construction of his critical project, namely: that the criticism of private property is the starting point of the communist proletarian program of overcoming all alienation and that its objective is the humanization of the senses and the relationship between the sexes and of society with nature.

In his commentary, Sánchez Vázquez critically covers the various positions regarding the 1844 manuscripts and places them in the debate around the burning problems of our time.

In this way, the theoretical disputes, apparently so far from political struggles, about the status of humanism, the concepts of alienation and objectification, the role of the critique of political economy and Hegelian dialectics in the foundation of the global critique of modern society. It is demonstrated whether the validity of Marx's youthful work could make the discussion about the great problems of our time revolve around it.