"Returning to Marx"as a Scholarly Adventure in Terms of Methodology:A Study of Lefebvre's Current Problems of Marxism
The retrospective endeavor of"returning to Marx"does not simplistically idolize Marx's historical writings as immutable doctrines;instead,it aims to faithfully portray the intricate evolution of Marx's thought as it is during that historical period,discarding untenable interpretations on the one hand and restoring Marx's true ideas on the other.Lefebvre relates Marx's later critique of capitalism in The Capital to the perspective method of intuiting objects in the Theses on Feuerbach,thereby suggesting that Marx's criticism of economic relations in capitalism is based on his debunking intuitive"substances"such as commodities,money,as well as capital.This critique lies at the heart of the critique of economic fetishism.