Marc Bloch lettore del Capitale di Marx

Abstract · Marc Bloch reader of Marx’s Capital · This article examines an unpublished folder held in the “Fonds Marc Bloch” of the “Archives Nationales” in Paris, containing brief excerpts and notes on the first fourteen chapters of the first volume of Karl Marx’s Capital. For this work, Bloch used the third German edition of 1883, the last one edited directly by Marx. By examining the titles Bloch wrote on each of the sheets, it is possible to gain an idea of a coherent study path, particularly attentive to the themes of the theory of value, com- modity fetishism, and Marx’s methodology. The notes, difficult to date, were not used in the drafting of Bloch’s main historical works, but an internal analysis of his methodological writings and his works on feudal society and monetary history allows us to reconstruct the terms of an intense and continuous engagement with the key pages of Capital. The image that emerges is that (used by Lucien Febvre in the Correspondance) of a « living Marxism », constituted not only by the direct study of Marx’s writings, but by an attempt to revise and correct the Marxist paradigm.