Marx, Phenomenology of Poverty and the Revelation of the Common

This article is devoted to the young Marx’s dealing with the debate about dead-wood theft under the perspective of the significance of poverty. What does the way of living of the poor tell us about humanity according to the young Marx? And what is the nature of the goods the poor reclaim for their use by common right? We argue that with his kind of phenomenology of poverty Marx gives us tools to think of an economy of the inappropriability of what is common to humanity.