Hannah Arendt sobre Marx e o marxismo

Abstract

In this paper, I intend to analyze some central points that culminate in the maturation of Arendt's reflection in relation to Marx's thought and marxism. For that, Arendt's reading will be analyzed from the excerpts present in Karl Marx and the Tradition of Western Political Thought, written in the early 1950s, a text that is a kind of complementation of The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and was part of a project conceived by Arendt to write a book on the “totalitarian elements of marxism”. Since this writing was never accomplished and this project was abandoned, I consider that the analysis of this text, in addition to clarifying many important points of Arendt's criticism of Marx and marxism, can also serve as a bridge to her Magnum Opus The Human Condition (1958) My hypothesis is that, in Arendt's view, the rupture present in Marx's thought in relation to the tradition of political philosophy happens based on a type of language that is the result of tradition itself. Therefore, the practical results of Marxian thought and Marxism would be a consequence of the tradition of Western political thought when converted into a radical praxis.