Da pedagogia do capital e de sua antítese: violência, (de)formação do trabalho e a luta pela formação humana

Abstract

The article deals with the relations between capital and the processes of human formation, trying to show the strategies of the capitalist class to maintain control over the working class by restricting the forms of their access to humanity culture and accentuating the separation between intellectual work and manual work. With reference, above all, to Marx’s theoretical legacy in Capital (2013), we start from two hypotheses: the capital, when valuing itself, acts with the force of its attempts and the violence of its methods; next to this, offers a fragmented, elementary and purely technical education to those who work under its regime. We verified that in the last instance this education not only shows itself mitigated but also hostage of a system in which the restriction to the freedom of the worker, explicit or not, plays a decisive role. We reaffirm, despite the limits that surround the processes of formal education, that workers can not relinquish a key claim: the struggle for access to historical objectifications produced by mankind over time.