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György Lukács
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“Admirers of the ‘purified’ Nietzsche have been hard put to unite his sanctioning of barbarity with an often subtle and rarefied cultural critique. But we can easily dispose of this dichotomy. In the first place, the union of ultra-refinement and brutality was by no means a personal quirk requiring psychological elucidation, but a universal, psychical-moral distinguishing mark of imperialist decadence.”
György Lukács (1885–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only 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 them as mere illusions which are not less illusory for being seen to be necessary.”
György Lukács (1885–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unmediated 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 of production itself, but the ideology of its ruling class.”
György Lukács (1885–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The 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) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In 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 from the division of labor and specialisation in the different disciplines.”
György Lukács (1885–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 Lukács (1885–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Critical 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) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“History 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 situations, etc., while the principles of society remain eternally valid. ... On the contrary, history is precisely the history of these institutions, of the changes they undergo as institutions which bring men together in societies. Such institutions start by controlling economic relations between men and go on to permeate all human relations (and hence also man's relations with himself and with nature).”
György Lukács (1885–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At 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 Lukács (1885–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The 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 greatest.”
György Lukács (1885–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From a very early stage the ideological history of the bourgeoisie was nothing but a desperate resistance to every insight into the true nature of the society it had created.”
György Lukács (1885–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source