Georg Lukacs
History & Class Consciousness
III: The Standpoint of the Proletariat
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Thus man has become the measure of all (societal) things. The conceptual and historical foundation for this has been laid by the methodological problems of economics: by dissolving the fetishistic objects into processes that take place among men and are objectified in concrete relations between them; by deriving the indissoluble fetishistic forms from the primary forms of human relations. At the conceptual level the structure of the world of men stands revealed as a system of dynamically changing relations in which the conflicts between man and nature, man and man (in the class struggle, etc.) are fought out. The structure and the hierarchy of the categories are the index of the degree of clarity to which man has attained concerning the foundations of his existence in these relations, i.e. the degree of consciousness of himself.
WTF!!! How dare you create a paragraph like this Georg! A spanking on the bare bottom is in order!!! I do not mean to be disrespectful but...really!
So the name of this mental foundation of thought processes is the wonderful STANDPOINT EPISTEMOLOGY. What a great descriptive! But what does it mean?
