Las antinomias del raciouniversalismo (Aproximaciones)

Abstract

This article proposes a philosophical approach to

the processes of ratio-universalization of political

societies. On the occasion of the bicentenary of

Karl Marx’s birth, a reinterpretation of the Thesis

XI on Feuerbach leads us to analyze the essential

relationship between the real materialist philosophy

and ratio-universalism. Next, we try to elucidate the

meaning of the idea of communism in light of this

theory. To study the processes of rationalization,

two phases (an analytic phase and a synthetic one)

are distinguished as reciprocal operative processes,

while their coordination between them is

established by the dialectic between intensive

universalism and expansive universalism. Once the

(internal and external) contradictions that arise in

the course of the raciouniversalist orthograms are

made clear, we examine the confrontation between

the Rights of Man and the Citizen as an episode of

the raciouniversalist dialectic. Subsequently, we

make some comments about the idea of the

transformative political subject. The article

concludes with a critique of intellectualism in

certain Marxist conceptions of the phrase "class

consciousness".

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