Far from disregarding it, Althusserian “theoreticism” is a long detour through the problem of thinking politics. This Chapter focuses on some traces laying on the surface of <i>Lire le Capital</i>, through the references to a few phrases of Goethe´s Faust and its echoes within a Marxist <i>heritage</i>. Signs that indicate on the surface of the writing, the mode in which Althusserian though exceeds the epistemological ground to enhance, through the tension between Theory and Practice, a problematic regarding time, that opens spaces for <i>political</i> thought.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación