39 | Lukács: Social Totality and the Commodity Form
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Lucach Argues for the Philosophical Significance of Marxism
Lukach argues for the philosophical significance of marxism. It's not just empirical sociology or a new take on political economy, he says. Without it this contradictory unity of fragmentation and universality in capitalism would be impossible to grasp. So the standpoint of the proletariat is bound up with everything that we have said so far. And that is a historically novel phenomenon. No class prior to it has ever had this universal status.
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