‘계급 개념’에 관한 정치사상적 검토: 한국사회 현실 해명을 위하여

Abstract

This article presents a new concept of class based on work-change metatheory. Using it, the purpose of this article is to properly elucidate actuality of Korean society and modern society. The concept of class can be largely classified into the substantive class and the organic class according to the metatheory. In common, the existing concept of class, which is the substantive class, has a vulnerability that it cannot properly elucidate actuality. This is because of the limitation of substance-motion metatheory underlying it. Due to the limitation of the metatheory, peoples and things which are involved in works are not regarded as ‘participants’, but as ‘observer-means-function.’ As a result, it is likely that the relations of observers can be reduced to the relations between purpose and means or the relations of hostility from the beginning of the work. ‘Articulating-work and participants class’ is the concept of the organic class. This concept shows that according to the way and process of a work, the work can change to a new resulting state different from the previous one, and the relations of the participants in the work can also change to a new relations different from the previous one. It can be seen in this paper that the concept of the substantive class is located on the several phases where the concept of the organic class is changing and developing. According to this, it can be seen that the concept of the organic class and its elucidation of actuality includes the concept of the substantive class and its elucidation of actuality.