Relationship between universal, particular and singular in marxist feminist analyzes: by an integrative ontology

Abstract

This theoretical-bibliographic article aims to develop, in defense of the historical-dialectical materialist method as a theoretical and political weapon of Marxist feminism, the proposal of integrative ontology from the unitary theory, the foundation of the Social Reproduction Theory (TRS). ). Therefore, we present the conflicts around the approximations and distances between feminism(s) and Marxism since the 1970s, as well as the critical dialogue of TRS with the double and triple systems. We analyze one of the elements that we consider most relevant in the method: the relationship between universal, particular and singular, using the key of the totality category. This relationship allows us, on the one hand, to emphasize the challenges posed by reality with regard to the levels of abstraction in the analysis of the concrete, as synthesis of multiple determinations; on the other hand, it helps in the development of critical dialogue with intersectionality and consubstantiality. This is a theoretical exercise that emphasizes the mediation category (particularity) as fundamental to think about the challenges posed to gendered and racialized sociability and the capitalist social totality, from a Marxist feminist perspective.