Emancipação política e humana em Marx: alguns apontamentos

Abstract

Having as a frame of reference the texts: On the Jewish Question, dated in 1843, and The Marginal Critical Gloss concerning the article The King of Prussia and the Social Reform (by a Prussian in 1844), this paper aims at making a few considerations on Marx’s thinking regarding human and political emancipation. In the aforementioned texts, Marx expressed the main differences between human and political emancipation, and also considered what the former meant in concrete terms and what the latter would represent. In addition to this, by means of the historical analyses, Marx certified that political emancipation was a step forward as far as servitude relations in the feudal society were concerned. However, he pointed out that it represented the bourgeoisie’s project and did not eliminate Man’s exploitation. On the contrary, human emancipation is what needs to be carried through by the proletariat - the truly revolutionary class capable to put an end to Man’s exploitation with a social revolution.