Introduction to a debate on poverty

Abstract

The ideological problem that arises from the class struggle which dialectically structures society in an antithetical confrontation between bourgeoisie and proletariat in the modern era is a debate in which axiological, gnoseological, epistemological, esthetic,and political values, in other words, philosophical values come face to face. This confrontation involves the conception of the world in general and of society in particular. In this terrain, the problem focuses on the heated defense of the bourgeois and petit-bourgeois ideologies about the eternity of the conditions of existence generated by capitalism and the equally heated struggle of the proletariat ideologues in the historicization of said conditions and, thus, of its changing nature, favorable to the ending of this mode of production in order to construct another, where social inequality ceases forever. Those who stubbornly insist on the bourgeois and/or petitbourgeois posture assume a position that is so indolent and absurd that it could be considered to be ideologically impoverished and, thus, spiritually indigent, but not in the manner of biblical references to the poor in spirit, but rather poverty of spirit approaching madness or demonology.