ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to point to some of the methodological issues which a working class analysis of the 'regional problem' should consider. The Marxist discourse distinguishes, a bourgeois and hegemonic discourse, one which assigns to regional analysis the same function which any other production of social meaning has in its context: the reproduction of its conditions of existence as agents in a class society. Regional analysis has, in the context of the working class production of meaning for social practice, the function of explaining two, to a certain extent different, problems. First, it is necessary to study the effects of capital's organization of space on the working class. The second area of problems posed by the production of meaning for a working class social practice lies in the understanding of the organization in space under socialism and the transition to that stage.
