The class struggle waged in civil society includes a symbolic battlefield that is nothing less than common sense. In this struggle, millions of communicative events take place through which people's attitudes are formed and their consciousness is subjected to the imperatives of capital accumulation as they try to free themselves and be themselves, prosper, survive, antagonize or understood.

For the men and women of contemporary society, these multiple small events occur more or less unconscious of their foundations in songs, love affairs, defeats and daily triumphs. But all of them, many of them would improve their performance especially that of humanizing and liberating themselves if they could become aware of the traps and possibilities that germinate and hide in this territory that is common sense.

Hence Marx analyzed the essential aspects of these problems in Capital. Criticism of political economy. Thus, in this work, in addition to an unprecedented economic thought, we find that we could consider social psychology and that in turn are related to pedagogy, education, personality formation, etc., which have great value for the sciences. contemporary social issues and that show the depth and acuity of Marx's criticism of capitalism in economic and political, but also sociological and psychosocial terms.

As a product of more than thirty years of research, waiting to expose the matter in extenso and in all its articulations in other publications, in these pages Jorge Veraza exposes the foundations, as well as the essential elements of the topic.

The author starts from the basic Marxist thesis that in bourgeois society the commodity form structures both civil society and the practical consciousness or common sense that corresponds to it.