Qual o papel da formação teórico-política na construção da consciência de classe?

Abstract

This essay seeks to reflect on the role of training in theoretical and political construction of class consciousness of workers. We start from the observation that alienation is an objective process, which daily produces and reproduces the domination and exploitation of workers by capital. In other words, the basic objective of the sale is the private ownership of means of production, which allows the social production is privately accumulated by capitalists. In this sense, the first step to test the overcoming of alienation is the effective struggle against the exploitation of capital, through various social movements, trade unions and political parties built by workers. The second step is access to the whole theory of explanation of social reality with a view to its transformation, that is, dialectical materialism, or Marxism. From the workers' participation in these collective forms of struggle, they can leave the sphere of alienation and toward a consciousness of the claim or of citizenship, which involves the struggle for social rights, or the struggle for reforms within the order capitalist. But under certain conditions, and from the class struggle against capital, workers can achieve class consciousness, awareness of the need for social transformation, the necessity of revolution and political training in this task assumes a fundamental role. To the extent that activists of social movements, trade unions and leftist parties seek to better prepare for the fight, and seeking to acquire theoretical and political training to help them understand capitalist society and its contradictions, the task of building a new society becomes ever more necessary and fundamental.