MARX. FROM THE THEORY OF EDUCATION TO THE SELF-EMANCIPATION OF THE PROLETARIAT

• Main Author: Irene Viparelli
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal da Bahia 2010-08-01
• Series: Germinal : Marxismo e Educação em Debate
• Subjects: Education; self education; self-emancipation; theory of tendencies
• Online Access: http://www.portalseer.ufba.br/index.php/revistagerminal/article/view/9584/7008

This article debates the proletariat Education issue, based on Marx’s third thesis in ad Feuerbach: "The educator himslef needs be educated. It situates the problematic, envisaged in the German Ideology work, and reproduced in other works, in, in relation to the Left-wings Hegelians’ thoughts, in order to overcome the “understanding of the history development as a result of subjective conscience, and of the education of the ‘Mass’ as revolutionary task of philosophy”. The text explains how Marx established the boundaries of the idealistic perspective and the "old materialism" in the history conception, proletariat education, and defense of self-education and emancipation of the proletariat. It elaborates possible contradictions between this perspective and the role of communists in the work of "vanguard" of education for revolution. It concludes the overcoming of the contradictions by the theory of "tendencies" of the historical development.