Notes for the discussion about the subject-object relationship in science and history from a Marxist perspective

Abstract

This article is an approach to the Marxist conception of the relation subject-object from some critical readings that debate against scientific positivism, using, as a point of departure, some principles of classic Marxism, arguing at the same time against those mechanic interpretations that originated from classic Marxism itself, especially those advocated by Stalinism. We will discuss the relation subject-object in the construction of knowledge and the form that takes the relationship between social consciousness and social being in the historical process, leaving open the debate about Marxism's “determinism” and “teleologism” in its materialist conception of history.