Individuo social y autonomía en Marx

Abstract

In this paper I Claim that we can find in Marx's social and political theory a radical ontological turn that separates him from the former perspectives of contractualism and Hegel. The Marxian nodal conception of the social individual involves a double relation of appropiation and critique respect those former perspectives. With contractualism, Marx affirms the notions of autonomy and equality, but against it, he denies an atomist and ahistorical approach. With Hegel, Marx's perspective involves a relationist, conflictivist and historicist approach, but against it, Marx criticizes teological organicism. By no means I say that this is the only thread in Marx's complex thought. This perspective coexist with other incompatible ones. But I think that not much attention has been given to the Marxian perspective of the social individual, and that its contemporary development could be of much help in explicative, normative and political contexts.