Marx, Engels and literature as revolutionary consciousness
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https://doi.org/10.48075/ri.v26i1.31189Keywords:
Revolutionary Consciousness, Class Struggle, Dialectics, Literature, Social InequalitiesAbstract
This paper analyzes how Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels understood literature as a means of capitalist (re)production, indicating their contributions to the (re)construction of a new society, based on revolutionary consciousness. We discuss the trajectory of these authors, understanding literature as a considerable contribution to sociabilities, building the proletarian conscience, articulated to revolutionary literature. We are based on Cotrim (2016), Lukács (2010), Silva (2000) and Vedda (2003) from a qualitative research, based on literature review. We articulated, as Marx did, the adoption of two poems: O Bicho by Manuel Bandeira and Lixo by Augusto de Campos, indicating paths for the use of literature based on revolutionary conscientization. Our results point to the importance of the approximation of these theorists to the reality of individuals devoid of capitalist and neoliberal logic as a form of liberation from inequalities and social conditioning and human exploitation.
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