摘要：This paper attempts to show that Marx always tried to understand and explain the (social) existence of the theories that were object of his criticism. And that means to say that in his critique the emphasis was not placed upon logic or epistemology. In other words, the paper stresses the ontological nature of Marx’s thought. But the ontological character of Marx’s thought is reclaimed here from a perspective at odds with the contemporary and philosophical atmosphere, in which ontology is evoked just to be next dismissed as relative. To show the relevance of Marx’s ontology to the ongoing debates, the article relies upon some aspects of the work of Searle, a non-Marxist contemporary critic of the ontological relativism.
