39 | Lukács: Social Totality and the Commodity Form
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Law and the Emerging Bureaucratic State
In europe, everyone asks me about the law because they really think the law can control this shop. And so that's buche. That's bourgeois thinking, right there. Lucotch has a whole section of the essay where he talks about how the law and the operation of the law under capitalism is also totally determined by commoditie,. Yet the commodities by quantification, ya, is like, yet, this is where we get like, the de critique of the like, then emerging bureaucratic state. The bureacratic state under capitalism tries to like, subsume ever, like, more complex issues under like the most violent formalization.
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