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The philosophy of praxis achieved conscious formulation through its relation to a specific system of social relations and a specific historical period. It conceptualised itself as a theoretical form called upon to analyse the conditions for the hegemony of the subaltern classes, in the wake of the revolutionary break of 1917. It identified the risks inherent in any purely passive revolution, whether in the east or the west. These fears proved to be grounded. Such negative lucidity has not however led to the total invalidation of the philosophy of praxis which, at the very least, still retains that "instrumental value" which Gramsci acknowledged in grand idealism (the theory of collective subjective activity), and which involves the capacity to propose a conceptual articulation of the relations hctween the national and the international. The failure of the philosophy of praxis, its non-realisation, achieves conscious formulation as the beginning of a new phase of struggles, the agenda of which comprises the establishment of a philosophy of our praxis, in the wake of the philosophy of praxis.