Germinal : Marxismo e Educação em Debate (Jun 2009)
MODE OF PRODUCTION AND EDUCATION: PRELIMINARY NOTES
Abstract
This text criticizes the post-modernity, the apology from the microscopic, scrappy, irrational perspectives to the crude empiricism. It claims the present of the Marxist and Engelsist conception for the explanation for everything that exists and the centrality of the category mode of production in the material life of the men for the explanation and the understanding of the historical conditions expressed in the different social formations. The exposure is organized in four parts: the first is about the foundations of the philosophical and scientific arguments; the second is about the foundations of the materialistic and dialectic conception of the history; in the third is talked about the mode of production as a central category in the Marxist conception; the fourth part deals with the education and the mode of production. For the Marxist education, as it is expressed in the Marxist and engelsist elaboration, it is necessary to go beyond the capital, organize and create the conditions for a quality leap on the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat against the capital, something that is not for the future. This has been happening since the 18th century when the proletariat claims, in contrast to bourgeois education, an education that combines manual and intellectual work, which combines a whole degree, an education that goes over the limits and the alienation placed in the bourgeois education. The establishment of educational systems, not in a unilaterally bourgeois perspective anymore, but with the absorption of the counterbalances and of the claims of the proletariat.
