The education and formation of the potentially revolutionary subject

Abstract

The present exposition starts from a critique of education directed by the formal curriculum, which in turn is presented in public schools as an instrument of action to maintain objectives that deny integral human formation. In this sense, amid the context of capital's structural crisis, the opportunity emerges to rescue the dialectical method developed by Marx and Engels in order to verify the possibility of undertaking a critique of education institutionalized by capitalist molds. To contextualize this issue, it is worth highlighting the absence of the proletariat in the revolutionary scene, given the emptying of the critical-formative process of the working class, especially regarding the role of political-educational praxis for the formation of the potentially revolutionary subject. We start from the assumption of not restricting the struggle just for the acquisition of accumulated knowledge, but for a critical understanding of it, as an instigator of the revolutionary character of the class. The theoretical discussion contemplates a methodology based on a bibliographical study mediated by the works of Marx and Engels, as well as their interpreters and scholars.