György Lukács (1885-1971) What You Think You Know, You Really Don't 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
György Lukács (1885-1971) Social Responsibility 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
György Lukács (1885-1971) His Point is Hegelian! O Sepi to Poli 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,
György Lukács (1885-1971) Dialectic Bastardized Dialectic BastardizedCritical philosophy implies above all historical criticism. It dissolves the rigid, unhistorical, natural appearance of social institutions; it reveals their historical origins. - György Lukács (1885-1971) Pop Goes the
György Lukács (1885-1971) WRONG! WRONG!Bourgeois thought judges social phenomena conscious or unconsciously, naïvely or subtly, consistently from the standpoint of the individual. No path leads from the individual to the totality. - György
György Lukács (1885-1971) Wholeness and Implicated Disorder 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
György Lukács (1885-1971) Smokescreen 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 Account 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
Rodney Livingstone (Translator) It's All an Illusion, Use Your Allusion 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
