György Lukács

What You Think You Know, You Really Don'tThe highest degree of consciousness, the crassest form of 'false consciousness' always manifests itself when the conscious mastery of economic phenomena appears to be at its

Social ResponsibilityAt this point bourgeois thought must come up against an insuperable obstacle, for its starting-point and its goal are always, if not always consciously, an apologia for the existing order. - György

His Point is Hegelian! O Sepi to PoliHistory does not merely unfold within the terrain mapped out by these institutions. It does not resolve itself into the evolution of contents, of men and

Wholeness and Implicated DisorderIn Marx the dialectical method aims at understanding society as a whole. Bourgeois thought concerns itself with objects that arise either from the process of studying phenomena in isolation, or

SmokescreenThe function of these unmediated concepts that have been derived from the fetishistic forms of objectivity is to make the phenomena of capitalist society appear as supra-rational historical essences. - György Lukács (1885-1971)

Wealth of the Mind, Not the Bank AccountUnmediated concepts ... veil the relations between objects. ... They are, therefore, objects of knowledge, but the object which is known through them is not the capitalist system

It's All an Illusion, Use Your AllusionOnly the dialectical conception of ... reality as a social process ... dissolves the fetishistic forms necessarily produced by the capitalist mode of production and enables us to see