Hungarian Marxist philosopher who developed the concept of reification — social relations appearing as thing-like objective forces — and the theory of class consciousness in History and Class Consciousness.
Reification: under capitalism, social relations between persons appear as objective relations between commodities — commodity fetishism pervades all social life. Class consciousness: the proletariat can achieve a standpoint from which the totality of capitalist society becomes transparent. Totality is the methodological principle of Marxist dialectics.
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