The role of violence: a revision of the work of Marx, Engels and Lenin

Abstract

From the Marxist conception of society, violence is not a phenomenon that is advocated per se, but to understand the historical-social development, it is perceived that violence, as class societies, has played a decisive role for the configuration, consolidation and decline of the same. Reject this approach both reactionary violence and abstract pacifism and recognize revolutionary violence as the only form of radical transformation of society, which will be necessary at some particular moment in history to end the capitalist mode of production, and thus, give to a new social formation that encourages the transition towards a communist society.

Keywords

• violencia
• superestructura
• revolución
• oprimido
• insurrección popular.