Abstract

There has been a lot of debate as well as furious criticism of Deconstruction’s ‘untying relationship’ with radical politics, hence Marxism. I use the term ‘untying relationship’ on purpose in order to better designate and underline Derrida’s declaration of deconstruction’s inherent relationship with Marxism. Unrelated with any ‘ethical turn’ in his thought and work, certain concepts Derrida has integrated into our current lexicon of the criticism of everyday critical life and theory always had a permanent inherence and inspiration driven from Marxism. Rather than choosing to lay out the traces of this relationship through a reading of ‘The Specters of Marx’, I choose to carry out the inspirational sources of ‘différance’, ‘arche-writing’ and ‘spacing’ or the overturning of the hierarchy between speech and writing from Derrida’s early works and try to demonstrate the inheritance these concepts owe to Marx’s works. Thus with this claim, it will be purported that the required explanation from deconstruction about its relationship with radicalism in late nineties was futile since the very originary concepts of deconstruction is always already inherited from a Marxist conception of the world.