Sobre a política na Ideologia Alemã de Marx e Engels

Abstract

This article is the result of studies carried out on the work The German Ideology. The main theme is the double character of the politics and the methodology was the theoretical study, taking the own text as object of analysis. This text settles the foundations for the Dialectical and Historical Materialism, basis never abandoned by the authors. The structuring of the dialectical materialist method, the debate with the most representative contemporaries and the analysis of a context which indicates possible radical changes in the XIXth century society refer to important themes that cannot be avoided and are, directly or indirectly, discussed. Politics is one of these themes. Either talking straight about it, or placing it as something implicit to the production. This is the way the double character of the politics expresses itself, concurrently, positively, once it is a confirming instance of the human being, historically built from the productive activity; and in a negative way, once it assumes the character of irrationality in denying the human. As positivity, it is irremovable from life: by producing its own existence, the human being needs to organize themselves socially and the political instance is the tool for this. However, as negativity, what should implement the human, politics unaccomplishes it and this is the process that occurs in the capitalist society under the judgment of the bourgeois liberalism, also an object of Marx and Engels analysis in this work. This way, it is understood that the double character of politics cannot be eliminated, or separated, but, in the current society, this double character remains and is constituted by a paradox: on the one hand, indispensable; on the other hand ,a way to unaccomplish the human.