Class consciousness in the contemporary Marxist political thought (selected models)

Abstract

Class consciousness represents its highest stage in the contemporary Marxist thought of Rosa Luxemburg and Antonio Gramsci, not just a reflection of reality, but rather a dialectical form through the reflection of consciousness on reality and its reproduction. The superiority over the infrastructure (historical materialism) promised the revolutionary class consciousness to be achieved spontaneously, and the seeds of a breakthrough are mass strikes, denying the role of the party to organize this awareness, limiting its role to the interconnection between classes, emphasizing the role of socialist democracy as a conscious vanguard for organizing spontaneity, struggle, and developing awareness during the revolutionary process and the leadership of the revolution to achieve its goals. But at the same time it called for reducing the role of the leading vanguard whenever the class consciousness of the proletariat increased, and although it reduced a lot of the role of violence in achieving the revolution, in the end it relied on revolutionary violence as a final solution to achieving the revolution after the revolution had run out. Peaceful means of change, then, after the socialist revolution is achieved through the conscious proletarian class and the establishment of its state, will wither after achieving its goals and consolidating its principles in awareness of individuals, for Rosa's class consciousness is an important tool in educating the masses, achieving revolution, changing the bourgeois system, and establishing the bourgeois state; and at the same time it is a tool for its decay.