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The Reification Essays in History and Class Consciousness
French intellectuals are given to this because of the structure of the French state. They're actually just trying to ad hoc justify what is already happening, usually in the case of like Alta-Sayer. The way they read reification makes it totalizing, not just because of totality, literally it reifies every form of social life. Even stuff like socialist realism doesn't reflect the subject object back on itself as how everything is reified.