39 | Lukács: Social Totality and the Commodity Form
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Problem of Controversy
I can listen to people i disagree with, but this notion that there is a whole they are deeply antagonistic to. We could never know about these interests. The proletariat really actually and capitilates this form of life so that we can go beyond it,. which means enclosing it, rather than simply opening it up. I think what you are getting at is the problem of contradiction. Like if there were no contradiction, there would be no problem. But it's like having to do that and to confront a contradictory reality. And it's in that confrontation that they become the subject object. That's why crises are never imminently engendered. They're just irreconcilable.
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