We aim to analyze the economic and political determinations which have instigated the movement towards a class consciousness among an unemployed population mediated by the formation of a social movement, the Unemployed Workers Movement (MTD). We use the Marxist debate about social classes (SC) and class consciousness using the studies of Iasi (2006). The research method used in the present work is characteristic of the dialectical-materialist approach, which is based in three assumptions: contradiction, totality and historicity. The condition of the unemployed which fostered the movement for group fusion (Sartre's discussion), was the result of the new organization of production that has caused both to the working class and the movement of regressivity in the advanced progressivity as regards the possibilities of organization beyond the Trade Unions. The SC are imposed at the same time as they are imposed by the concrete action of their subjects, in a way which is required by capitalism, but only take place while practical mediations, while contingent mediations.
Social classes; Class consciousness; Subjectivity; Critical theory; Dialectical-materialism
