39 | Lukács: Social Totality and the Commodity Form
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The Commodity Form Is the Arch Defining Structure of Capitalist Society as a Whole
Bourgeois thought is incapable of understanding in any rational way what the social totality is doing. Hinges on the extent to the commodity form is the arch determining structure of capitalist society as a whole. The proletariat, as a commodified entity themselves, is uniquely situated to understand that process of commodification including its contradictions and whatever. Then they are in a position to make sense of the social totality in a way that when you're only focused on the kind of, like hyper scientific understanding of isolated aspects of society, you'll never be able to makesense of that make s that make aa ialo.
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