39 | Lukács: Social Totality and the Commodity Form
What's Left of Philosophy
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Is There a Contradiction Between Atomization and Unity or Totalization?
Lucotch says there's a contradiction between like atomization, or like isolated fragmentation, and like unity or totalization. And this is something that he ties against, specifically to capitalism as a mode of social organization. But it's also the case that we're saying something real about our subjective, lived experience, if not somethingor more strongly, objectively true about this social form. The proletariat is, for the first time, able to say something like that concretely and adequately.
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