In his book Trabalho e reflexão [Labor and reflexivity], José Arthur Giannotti's considerations about late capitalist rationality forces him to develop some of Marx's original concepts. This article offers a critical reading of the consequences of a renewd understanding of the dialectics of capitalist sociability elaborated by Giannotti for the survival of a Marxist critical legacy that aims at refreshing Marx's immanent critique of capitalism.
Marxism; logical genesis; historical genesis; late capitalism