/lit/ - Literature

>tfw plebs name-drop normie-tier thinkers

Here's one for you––Left-wing: György Lukács.

"Theory of the Novel" (1916)
>Greek epics and medieval literature represent the "total" world where the "stars burning in the night sky are of the same essence of the soul."
>Modernity and secularization represents disenchantment of this world, spurred on by capitalism.
>"The novel is the epic of a world that has been abandoned by God."
>The solution to the novelization of life is the biography which seeks to create enchanted totality within the individual
>Alas, the biography fails to truly bring about the Greco-Medieval totality as it is a poor imitation of God.

"History and Class Consciousness" (1922)
>Capitalist societies produce "reificiation"; human relations and actions are transformed into properties of products independent of human life. In other words, products rule humans, not vice versa.
>The proletariat is the only class conscious of this alienation.
>The proletariat realizes it is not an object of contemplation but a subject of action and transformation.
>To become the "messianic class," the proletariat must seize power vigorously in the most extreme form of domination, i.e. Dictatorship of Proletariat.
>Thus the resumption of good and evil in the world, that evil actions can tragically produce good outcomes, that tragedy is inherently part of revolution.
>Establishment of communism is the resumption of the total world as lived by the Greeks; the giving of subjectivity to the proletariat a freedom; the vanguard party, like Odysseus, is the “unconditional absorption of the total personality in the praxis of the movement is the only possible way of bringing about an authentic freedom."