As lutas de classe na França de 1848 a 1850: direito, estado e política em Karl Marx

Abstract

This work focuses on the analysis of the book “Class Struggles in France from 1848 to 1850”, written by Karl Marx under the form of numerous essays during the time period in question and published, posthumously, by Friedrich Engels in 1895. The book is already considered a classic in the Marxist tradition, especially by its eminently political content, once it was a young Marx who wrote it, whose economic theory was yet to be developed. The book “Class Struggles in France” represents Marx’s first theoretical attempt to apply his concept of historical materialism in the analysis of concrete historical and political events, in order to make explicit the class dynamics and the endless class struggles that take place in the heart of the bourgeois civil society. On this path, the author proposes to analyze how the State presents itself as something separated and, therefore, antagonistic to the civil society, and how the politics and the State (bourgeois) itself are mere representations of its classes interests. Thus, the approach of this work is to analyze and systematize the concepts and arguments used by the author to explicit and underline the bourgeois civil society intrinsic contradiction and how the democracy can be used as an instrument of class domination and Estate power regulation.