INTRODUCTION TO MARXIAN CLASS THEORY: an ontological analysis

Abstract

This article analyzes Marx's class theory based on a synchronic study of Capital, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, The Class Struggle in France, and the Communist Manifesto. To this end, it discusses the issue of class struggle from an ontological perspective in the outcome of the key to reading class struggle as the “motor of history” and how the generality of the determining object is also manifested in the “exploitation of man by man”. Its objective is to contribute to the enlightenment of those scholars who have begun to read Marx's text, with an interest in the problematic of class struggle. The methodology used was bibliographical and documentary research as technical procedures aimed at the immanent reading of Marx's work, accompanied by selected Marxist commentators.