Diálogos sobre formação humana e educação socialista: Makarenko e Pistrak

Abstract

This text discusses the socialist education, especially broaching human development under the aegis of socialism, taking as example the Soviet experience from the early twentieth century. Based essentially on Makarenko and Pistrak, this discussion presents the dialectic dichotomy individual-community as an expression of the human abilities to overcome contradictions inherent in the alienation produced by capitalist society. In this perspective, it debates the formation of the new man, identified with Socialism. The line of argument is grounded on Lenin’s thoughts and it understands that the nonpolitical education which is intended tends to be conservative, therefore, it is incompatible with social commitment and the revolutionary sense of the human praxis.