"Yo [tampoco] soy marxista". Reflexiones teóricas en torno a la relación entre marxismo y arqueología. "I’m not marxist". Theoretical reflections on the marxism-archaeology relationship

Abstract

Labor is the essential mediator of social relations in capitalism, as well as the primordial ground of domination in that mode of production. The interpretation proposed by «historical materialism», as formulated by K. Kautsky with very specific political purposes, transforms this proposition, in the name of Marx, into an anthropological axiom. This has been reproduced, more or less exactly, in the field of prehistoric archaeology. Adopting a different political approach, focused in the combative character of research and in the antagonism and historicity of social relations since recent prehistory, we may address in a different way Marx and his proposal relating to a «material determination» of social forms.