La revolución como autoemancipación de los trabajadores

Abstract

The article presents a review of the theory of revolution in Karl Marx. It is divided into four sections. First, it analyzes Marx’s early writings on revolution and highlights the decisive influence of the workers’ uprisings of the 1840s on his understanding of revolutionary praxis. Secondly, it points out that workers’ self-mancipation was a founding principle of the International Workingmen’s Association and recovers some key aspects of the enrichment of the Marxian conception of revolution resulting from the Paris Commune of 1871. The third section deals with Marx’s last writings, where he considered the possibility of revolution and the transition to socialism in Russia. Finally, the article concludes with some reflections on the need for Marxist theory of revolution in the twenty-first century to critically recover the preceding contributions and incorporate issues such as the ecological crisis in order to face the challenges of the present.