BETWEEN REMEMBRANCE AND FORGETTING: MEMORY AS WORKING-CLASS RESISTANCE

Abstract

This article analyzes memory as a social and historical category, highlighting its role in the organization of social classes within the capitalist mode of production. The work consists of a bibliographic analysis in which, drawing on Historical-Dialectical Materialism and the contributions of French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs, memory is understood as a collective phenomenon, constituted by social frameworks and permeated by power struggles. The relationship between remembrance and forgetting demonstrates that memory is not neutral, but traversed by interests that transform it into an instrument of class struggle. The study also engages with the works of Elizabeth Jelin, Edward P. Thompson, and Walter Benjamin, showing how memory articulates historical, cultural, and political experiences. The final considerations highlight that memory, beyond reconstructing the past, acts as an active tool in the formation of class consciousness and in symbolic dispute, establishing itself as a strategic element for understanding and transforming social reality.