/lit/ - Literature

>shits on current society
>”oh my god this masterpiece is the most important work of this decade”
why is this so common in most forms of art and why are critics and other pseuds so predictable?

>>13517842
Your understanding of the foundations of bourgeois civil society is non existent.

>Particularity (main characteristic of bourgeois civil society) is in the first instance characterised in general by its contrast with the universal principle of the will and thus is subjective need. This attains its objectivity i.e. its satisfaction, by means of [a] external things, which at this stage are likewise the property and product of the needs and wills of others, and [b] labour and effort, the middle term between the subjective and the objective. The aim here is the satisfaction of subjective particularity, but the universal asserts itself in the bearing which this satisfaction has on the needs of others and their free arbitrary wills. The show of rationality thus produced in this sphere of finitude is the Understanding, and this is the aspect which is of most importance in considering this sphere and which itself constitutes the reconciling element within it.

Read Hegel, if you can't then gtfo...

>>13517859
>>13517838
>they believe that the capitalist mode of production is in the service of the universal will

Wake me up

>this thread

>this thread

>>13096792
This... This speaks volumes.