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The 35th edition of the journal of UERJ's Faculdade de Servico Social--Em Pauta: teoria social e realidade contemporanea--invites the reader to reflect on and delve into the theme of Marxism and Contemporary Reality.
Establishing itself as a union of diversities, this intellectual tradition combines diverse schools of thought and a lively internal debate. This unity is welded together by the critique of capitalism: its modus operandi, its developments, and its historical transformations, in which the conflicts of class interests thicken politics, and are refracted in the state as center of political power and in the organization of workers. Fidelity to history in its becoming has, as methodological counterpart, the privilege of totality, contradictions, and negativity in the quest for the liberation of material limits imposed to the collective praxis. Therefore, the challenge of thinking the relation between Marxism and contemporary reality is an intrinsic duty of the critical reason founded both in praxis and in the perspective of totality open to historical developments.
In this way, the editorial team of Em Pauta: teoria social e realidade contemporanea understands it is appropriate to revisit the intellectual tradition expressed in Marxism. With the intention of capturing your suggestions to reflection, with creativity and scientific accuracy, the unprecedented social processes that shape the new century, in tune with the interests of the working majorities: the relationship between peoples, the reconstruction of the nation-state, the abyssal growth of inequality between classes, countries and regions and the accelerated expansion of poverty; the profound changes in the labor world, the material and symbolic bases of ways of being and living of the working class, which establish new ways to mediate the sociohistorical experience of their subjects, the gender, ethnic-racial, and cultural diversity, and the struggle for social and human rights; the destruction/preservation of nature and the private appropriation of natural resources; scientific discoveries and technological innovations at the service of the development of social productive powers of labor; new forms of sociability in daily life, among many other dilemmas that strengthen the human richness of life in society.
By answering the journal's editorial call, the articles hereby presented express different approach angles of the Marxist tradition to comprehend the sociohistorical determinations of contemporary reality theoretically, methodologically, and politically. Thus, the first group of articles revisit classical and contemporary authors of the Marxist tradition, such as Lukacs, Gramsci, E. Mandel and M. Postone, to address more systematically the theoretical and methodological contributions bequeathed by such thinkers, putting them in dialogue with present challenges. In this segment, the first three articles can be found. The first one, in the words of its authors, "is thought of as a contribution to the self-criticism that the Marxian tradition owes itself. It is mainly based on the ideas of Lukacs and Postone to argue that the critique of the usual conception of labor within the Marxian tradition is an unavoidable condition of that self-criticism."
Therefore, as a development of its arguments, the article encourages the reader to understand the premises of Postone's critique to the so called "traditional Marxism", especially on the way it interprets Marx's critique on labor in capitalism.
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