Althusser read Marx through straining metaphor while Goux’s continuist reading slips

Evidence

Derrida innocently contributes to this by putting Althusser and Goux together in “White Mythology.” If one looks up nothing but the references given by Derrida to certain passages in Reading Capital, one sees immediately that Althusser’s attempt, for better or for worse, is to read Marx’s text through the straining logic of the metaphors in the Marxian text. Goux’s continuist reading proceeds by way of certain slippages. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 939