As formas literárias em O Capital: contribuição para a análise da dinâmica histórica, social e política do capitalismo e sua relação com a educação

Abstract

The current article assessed the literary forms in the development of the central categories of the fifth chapter of Karl Marx's Capital Volume 1. The assessment aimed to highlight the importance of an issue that has been little studied in Marx's works: the literary forms and their purposes in the theoretical development that the author presents, as well as their relevance for the understanding of his theory. Marx shows a peculiar exposure mode, starting from the appearance of economic phenomena, and going through its essential determinations to explain how such phenomena are presented in the capitalist reality. The development of this exhibition takes place through a textual form that makes use of several literary forms. In one of the author’s most essential and famous discoveries, the category of surplus-value, it is possible to ask why Marx does it through a narrative that presents the capitalist as the personification of capital? The current research investigates whether these literary elements, whose finished form can be seen in Capital Volume 1, would fulfill a didactic character that is essential to the aim of the aforementioned work to be an instrument in the education process of workers based on the critique of the Political Economy. We hope to contribute to the understanding of the historical, social, and political dynamics of capitalism and its relationship with education.