A atualidade das contribuições de Karl Marx e Friedrich Engels para a crítica das reformas neoliberais na educação no Brasil

Abstract

The article discusses the actuality of the references of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for the critical analysis of orthodox neoliberal reformism. Based on the categories work, polytechnics and omnilaterality, we highlight the fundamental distinction of the relationship between work and education that underlies its conception of education/training of the working class, from that proposed by the neoliberal reforms of the Brazilian present day. The text is the result of exploratory bibliographic studies carried out in three doctoral studies, which adopted as references the main works of Marx and Engels. The study demonstrates that the categories polytechnic education and omnilaterality in the authors' works express the possibility of a relationship between work and education that contributes to the overcoming of class society. They are, therefore, the basis for the critical analysis of neoliberal reforms and for the consolidation of the education project that matters to the working class.