Bibliographic record
Abstract
Lukács’ long, difficult and incredibly rich essay, ‘Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat’, is one of the most influential essays of the twentieth century. 1 Some of the more important influences stemming from this essay are: the recognition of a close connection between Hegel and Marx, the importance of dialectical thought in challenging dualistic, formalistic and isolating modes of thought, the importance of social location for developing certain forms of consciousness or knowledge, the importance of attempting to develop mediations between theory and practice aimed at overthrowing capitalism, and an extended discussion of some of the reifying forces of capitalism including their impact on capitalist ideology. It is Lukács’ particular emphasis on the concept of reification that is perhaps most original to him (even considering the influence of Max Weber and Georg Simmel), and, in my view, is his greatest theoretical achievement. I say this for two reasons. First, a careful study of capital’s inner logic as presented by Marx in Capital and, as developed further by Japanese political economists Kozo Uno and Thomas Sekine, demonstrates that reification is an absolutely central characteristic of capital. 2 Second, a theory of capital’s peculiar reifying force can contribute a great deal to thinking about the impact of capital on the formation of subjects both collective and singular, and about the possibilities of action in concert to bring about democratic socialism. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.062 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".