On the Nature of Marx's ThingsOn the Nature of Marxs Things is a major rethinking of the Marxian tradition, one based not on fixed things but on the inextricable interrelation between the material world and our language for it. Lezra traces to Marxs earliest writings a subterranean, Lucretian practice that he calls necrophilological translation that continues to haunt Marxs inheritors. This Lucretian strain, requiring that we think materiality in non self evident ways, as dynamic,