TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE CONCEPT OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE CONCEPT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC FORMATION IN THEORETICAL THINKING

Trần Văn Giảng, Nguyễn Thị Thủy

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Abstract: The interaction in theoretical thinking between the concept of the working class and the concept of socio-economic formation not only brings about changes in their connotations and denotations, but also gives rise to a new concept - the concept of the communist socio-economic formation. This new concept bears characteristics of both contributing concepts: ‘socio-economic formation’ plays the role of the species concept, while ‘working class’ plays the role of the genus concept. Since the content of the ‘working class’ demonstrates the mark of the genus concept, the communist socioeconomic formation inherently carries the essence of the working class. The essence of the working class is the contradiction between the second-order essence - interpersonal relations, the species-being nature of humans - and the first-order essence - the status of wage labor, of alienated labor. The unfolding of this contradictory essence determines the emergence, movement, and transformation of the communist socio-economic formation, along with the characteristics in each stage of its development. Through the analysis presented in this article, the author hope to make a modest contribution toward clarifying the logical relationship between the concept of the working class and the concept of socio-economic formation, especially in relation to the concept of the communist socio-economic formation

Keywords: Working class, socio-economic formation, communist socio-economic formation.