How to inherit Specters of Marx? How to inherit this work that is all about inheritance as the irreducible condition of any possible relation to a past and also to a future, the future of Marx and Marxism, to be sure, but also to any future whatsoever? How to receive its legacy while acknowledging the ways it complicates this scene and yet without merely folding it back on itself, applying it to itself in an act of repetition that ends up finally inheriting little or nothing? Questions like this are provoked when the pretext for rereading Specters of Marx is to mark an anniversary and take stock of how it has aged. Ten years ago already (or almost), there were similar calls to reflect on the arrival of this work on the horizon of rereading Marx and his legacy, under the guiding question of “Whither Marxism?,” as well as...

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