Werner Bonefeld

is a Professor of Politics at the University of York.

Antagonism and Negative Critique: An Interview

Antagonism and Negative Critique: An Interview

For me the “new reading of Marx” was fundamental as an attempt at critical reconstruction of the revolutionary significance of Marx’s critique of political economy. What really does “critique” mean? Critique of what and for which purpose? The “new reading of Marx” taught me that it means a critique of economic categories, and that this critique entailed an attempt at deciphering economic categories as the objectified forms of definite social relations.