Zero degree of civilization is not yet barbarism: it is worse

it is worse

Abstract

The article is intended to think of the cultural issue as urgent within and against the mold of omnipresent historical materialism. The problem developed is to highlight and show how the cultural issue is not peripheral when thinking about substantial social transformations: on the contrary, more important than material or production conditions. The production conditions configure the forms of people's existence, but their domination and subjection are expressed and articulated within the ubiquitous forms of life, insertions inscribed in the culture. Under this prism, culture starts to constitute elements of symbolic and ideological power: without their ruptures, there is no revolutionary class or perspective of transformations. Therefore, within the current forms of life implemented by the cultural field and its narratives, there is no class at all.