As we have seen, in his intellectual evolution Valls completely abandoned the idea of the Church as "we" and, although he qualifies it, we believe
he also abandons the "religious we". He never identified his
political "we", always more speculative than of daily praxis, with
the sociopolitical class as did Marxism, which he had to coexist with for a
long time in the university.
His pragmatic realism, although not really Marxist, his abandoning the Jesuits, his growing anticlerical drift, without a doubt his having specialized in Marx’s "teacher" permitted Valls to be considered an ally by many Marxists. Some kept their distance, such as Manuel Sacristan’s and Paco Fernández Buey’s group. Among those who are closer philosophically, we must mention José María Valverde, secondary school professors Maria Rosa Borras and the professor of the UNED José María Ripalda. Not as close were Gustavo Bueno and his group from Oviedo. Valls confronted the Marxists, like Universitat de Barcelona professor José María Bermudo and Manuel Cruz, and secondary school teacher Lluís Alegret. He was even more opposed to those who rapidly evolved from the extreme left to right wing positions which, for Valls, are frivolous and postmodern (like Eugenio Trias).
One must remember that Valls considered any social class, even the broadest
worker or proletarian class, to be merely a part of the whole confronting the
other part (the "capitalists" o Bourgeois") and therefore cannot
be a true, universal "we". Undoubtedly for Valls and many of his
generation the "class struggle" seemed too much like a "civil
war" and therefore inhibited the effective existence of a pacifying
"we".