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§22
In order to begin, Lukács engaged in an egregious form of revisionism; blaming for Marxism’s commitment to natural realism Fredrich Engels and his "dialectics of nature."23
To Lukács, when Marx referred to objective material reality, he was merely opposing society as a supra-individual horizon of meaning to individual subjectivity. It did not include objective natural reality, which Lukács brackets as irrelevant to Marxism.
§24
Society was ‘objective,’ and consciousness was ‘subjective.’ Their dialectical interaction, for Lukács, was the basis of history itself.
But the material reality outside of social mediation (nature) was irrelevant to, and outside this dialectic, outside history.
§25
The reason I mention Lukács is because Western Marxism was founded on the false view that he resolved the problem of ‘subject/object’ distinction for Marxism.
But he did nothing of that sort, he just changed the definition of objectivity to exclude objective reality itself.
§26
Here, objectivity is just the reified totality of social relations, denied of active subjective responsibility.
This obviously contradicts Marx’s materialism, for which objectivity does include nature, not just society as some purely transcendental horizon.
§27
Without including nature in the definition of material reality, then class-consciousness consists in dissolving all society, in all its objectivity, into a pure subjective self-consciousness. For Lukács, the proletarian class is the first ‘subject-object’ which does exactly this.
§28
This is a gross perversion of Marxism, and it is easy to see the lineage of the Lukácsian view in the Frankfurt School, the New Left, ‘postmodern academia,’ gender studies in Wokeism as a whole.
But is Lukácsian Western Marxism really to blame?
§29
In fact, when Lukács decided to reject Engels, he was just compromising with institutional modern realism.
Engels ‘dialectics of nature’ was too ‘metaphysical’ because it saw something ‘human’ in reality. In other words, the opposite of a metaphysical distrust in reality! |
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