Abstract

Marx's attitude towards capitalism is a function of two different perspectives. The first is the revolutionary perspective, which aims at the overthrow of bourgeois society in order to reestablish on a new basis the human relationships which have been reversed and turned “upside down” in this society. The second is the scientific perspective, which aims at reconstructing the way the system functions and develops. Although quite different, these two perspectives do not appear juxtaposed in Marx's work: rather, they are closely connected so that each is supported and reinforced by the fact that it follows as a consequence of scientific analysis; and the latter is pushed to its extreme conclusions by the orientation and impulse of revolutionary teleology.