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.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".