The study discusses, from the standpoint of Marxian ontology, the antagonistic character that constitutes labor relationships in the sociability of capital. Assuming labor as the founding complex of social being, and, in conjunction with historical-cultural psychology, it examines the theoretical construct of Leontiev, specifically with regard to the antagonism between the meaning and sense of labor, the ontological status of this phenomenon as well as its resolution conditions. Moreover, it revisits Mészáros elaborations on the structural crisis of capital, which, significantly narrowing the field of possibilities for the achievement of human-generic objectivations, makes the emancipatory struggle virtually imperative.
work; capital crisis; Leontiev