A discussão na obra de Karl Marx e Friedrich Engels acerca da concepção de infância

Abstract

The central problem of this work is to identify in the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels the discussion about the conception of childhood, considering the social conditions imposed by capitalism in the lives of European children. The general objective is to identify and analyze the conception of childhood in the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The specific objectives are to discuss the conception of childhood in the 18th and 19th centuries in the Marxian relation of childhood and to analyze the impact of industrialization on family organization and on the social condition of the proletarian child in Europe, according to Marx and Engels. As methodology was used the bibliographical research that focused on the works of the authors already mentioned, besides others for implementation. The work was structured in two parts. The first part deals with the construction of Modernity as a period constituted of renovations in society and in man, making it central. In the second part, the impacts of the consolidation of capitalism as a mode of production were evidenced, which induced the migration of the population from rural to urban areas, these subjects were sent to inadequate housing, access to poor quality food and health, in addition to the exhausting work shifts, they did not have the minimum quality of life, it can then be seen that the childhood portrayed in the works is linked to the social condition of the proletarian class and not that idealized by the theoreticians of capitalism.