According to an established interpretation, the transition from Hegel s materialism to Marx s materialism signifies a progressive development from an abstract-idealist theory of becoming, to a theory of the concrete actions of human beings within history.A Failed Parricideby Roberto Finelli offers an innovative reading of the Marx-Hegel relationship, arguing that the young Marx remained structurally subaltern to Hegel s distinctive conception of the subject that becomes itself in relation to alterity. Marx s early critique of Hegel is represented as a failed parricide, relying upon an organicist and spiritualist anthropology derived from Feuerbach s presumed materialism. Only in Marx s mature critique of political economy will he be able to return to this primal scene and produce a distinctive theory of the role of formal determinations in social and political modernity. First published in Italian by Bollati Borighieri Editore asUn parricidio mancato. Il rapporto tra Hegel e il giovane Marx, Turin, 2004."