The Question of Dialectics in Michael Heinrich’s The Science of Value

This essay engages with Michael Heinrich’s The Science of Value (Die Wissenschaft vom Wert) on the occasion of its translation into Italian. Given the breadth of the discussion that has greeted Heinrich’s significant work on Marx, this paper focuses on a specific question arising from Hein rich’s method and premises: the role of dialectics in Marx’s critique of political economy. On the one hand, The Science of Value rightly highlights how many commentators of Marx’s writings resort to "dialectics" as a way to bypass the need for a more detailed reconstruction of complex and sometimes fragmentary theoretical passages. On the other hand, the nature of dialectics itself remains underdetermined in the book, despite its premises—such as the informative function of the structure of Marx’s exposition—calling for greater attention to this issue.