The text addresses the gap identified by Enzo Traverso as the missed encounter between Marxism and memory studies. It reconstructs key theoretical dimensions within Marx’s work that provide productive entry points for such an engagement. These include, first, the iconoclasm of capital which “Melts all that is solid into air”; second, the oscillation between the proletarian revolution’s forward-looking orientation towards a future poetry and Benjamin's call to recover the “tradition of the oppressed”; and most notably, Marx’s analysis of the so-called primitive accumulation of capital. In this latter analysis Marx highlights what bourgeois economists “forgot” theoretically, and what capital structurally erases: the violence inherent in capitalist transition. Whilst the system forgets this violence; it ensures the perpetual remembrance of another dimension: debt. In the concluding section, the text examines the complex epistemic relations that dominate the existing field of memory studies. These include the central focus on the history of violence—often abstractly framed as “totalitarian violence”—the primary emphasis on the subjective categories of perpetrators and victims, and dominant memory strategies such as cosmopolitan memory and reconciliation. These epistemic formations are further linked to the affective frameworks that shape dominant memory culture. Finally, the text proposes the ways in which Marxist intersectional memory studies can contribute to this field by addressing its specific epistemic limitations and suggesting methods to move beyond them.