Class Consciousness vs. the Fiction of "Class First" Politics
December 19, 2020
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as posted by the channelThis Response to Noah Berlatsky's essay "Why Class First Leftists are Wrong" explains why the concept of "class first" leftism is both incoherent and fictional and attempts to explain the difficulties involved in developing class consciousness by presenting an excerpt from Steve Paxton's "Unlearning Marx," analyzing Georg Lukacs' essay on "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat," and critiquing Adorno's use of the term "living labor" along with his focus on the market or the exchange relation as the source of capitalist ideology.
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Unlearning Marx by Steve Paxton
Why Class First Leftists Are Wrong by Noah Berlatsky
Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat by Georg Lukacs
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