A liberdade humana em Marx: trabalho e política

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, James Wilson Januário de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Liberdade humana; Trabalho; Política; Work; Politics
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/26335

The present work aims at delineating the concept of human freedom in Marx’s thinking. To this end, it is necessary that two other essential concepts be expounded in order to help with the understanding of what freedom is for Marx, namely, work and politics. Work, as the first expression of human society, is the act that shapes up man’s freedom in an actual configuration; for in order that he is able to claim that he is free he has first to eliminate his needs. To this end, he has to change nature, and in this process, by means of the work, he will also change his own nature by acquiring new skills; but, according to Marx, the problem is that the work within the logic of capital becomes strange to the worker, and the worker is not able to see himself neither in the object nor in the production process which generates the loss of his universality as well as his estrangement before other individuals. This will lead to private ownership of means of production and forced division of work. And politics, that for Marx is shaped as a generator of social conglomerates, makes possible that a community administer itself having as an upshot individual freedom; which, in the present, will be exercised by only a few by means of representative politics that separate individuals between citizens and bourgeois, positioning the political State over its members which will configure, according to Marx, the private bourgeois committee. In order that human freedom is exteriorized the sine qua non condition is that this model of estranged work and modern representative politics be superseded and this will only be possible with Communism which is the kingdom of the needy, free and emancipated men. It is the kingdom of free time where individuals may produce and reproduce in a diverse manner that would entail satisfaction of body and soul, full human and social emancipation.