I reviewed Chris O’Kane’s new book for Marx and Philosophy Review of Books. The short of it is this is important scholarship that sets many Marxist debates on new terrain. Go check out the review to see what you might learn. marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2276...
‘Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre’ by Chris O’Kane reviewed by Jacob Spenser Wilson
For those steeped in value-form theory, who have read the third section of chapter one so many times they dream in coats and linen, who are acutely aware of the debates concerning value’s necessary fo...
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![In Western Marxism, we see similar tendencies. Starting with Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness, ontological materialism was rejected as pre-Marxist and “mechanistic.” Materialism was redefined (incorrectly) as dealing with social being only, and not with any underlying physical substrate. As Lukács put it, nature is a “social category.”[iv]The first generation of the Frankfurt School agreed, even if they rejected Lukács’ arguments about the need for a Leninist party. A Marxist, they held, could speak of dialectics in terms of historical consciousness alone.[v] They did not have to bother about the nature of reality itself.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ctphcgyhnllfluywokibtrgb/bafkreib3iafk6jnuz7lx2pyw4g57wl3heyx3gtx7ivjfj7vwjyqo4m4hm4)