Sociology 2240E Chapter Notes -György Lukács, Class Consciousness, False Consciousness

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The econ system of paramount importance determined all other sectors of society . Those marxists who believed in econ determinism saw the breakdown of capitalism as inevitable . The theory seemed to short-circuit the dialectic by making indv thought and action insignificant . This interpretation also led to a poli quietism and therefore was inconsistent w/ marx"s thinking. Why should indvs act if the capitalist system was going to crumble under its own structural contradictions? . Early hegelian marxists sought to restore the dialectic btwn the subjective and the objective aspects of social life . Commodities as the central, structural problem of capitalist society . A commodity is at base a relation among ppl that, they come to believe, takes on the character of a thing and develops an objective form . However, ppl tend to lose sight of the fact that they produce these commodities and give them their value .

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