"A Century of Critical Theory: The Legacy of György Lukács" (4/1/23 panel)

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On Saturday, April 1, 2023, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion titled "A Century of Critical Theory: The Legacy of György Lukács" as a part of their 15th annual international Convention.
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Strange as it is to reconsider Georg Lukács today after the demise of the Bolshevik experiment with which he was associated, the centenary marking the publication of his magnum opus, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (1923), offers the occasion to ask: What is the meaning of Lukács and HCC today? Over the last 100 years, various claims have been made of HCC. On the one hand, it is said to have inaugurated “Western Marxism” and set the foundation for the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. On the other, people have accused it of giving philosophical justifications for terroristic or opportunistic tendencies within Marxism-Leninism. We ask our panelists to consider the following: What is the relationship between political practice and theory that Lukács articulated in the revolutionary period of 1919-1925, based on his close reading of Lenin and Luxemburg? What in his critique of reification and defense of Marxist orthodoxy did the later Lukács disavow? What can we make of Lukács's legacy today? How have we received his investigation and elaboration of the problematic of Marxism? What are the essential issues raised for our time?
Speakers:
-Mike Macnair (Communist Party of Great Britain)
-Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University)
-Chris Cutrone (Platypus Affiliated Society)
Respondent: Omair Hussain
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@shtefanru 11 ай бұрын

one of the most interesting public forum i-ve seen

@shtefanru 11 ай бұрын

tnk u for uploading. chris is just an amazing reader of marxism

@Mathilde3219 6 ай бұрын

Excellent speeches!

@sublationmedia 3 ай бұрын

I don't think it's the case that the section on the working day can't be understood through the same dialectical method that Marx took up in the first half of the book, but it is certainly not the case that Marx abandons the law of value or the fetish nature of the commodity in the second half of the book.

@Mathilde3219 6 ай бұрын

1:42:27 I love the Destruction of Reason and perhaps it’s hardly late because it was written in the late 30’s. I think what appeals to the people today is the critique of pessimism and the task of evicting the intellectuals from the grand hotel abyss back into the streets, back to what actually founded Marxism in materialist objective dialectics

@Mathilde3219 6 ай бұрын

I find in it a critique of thinkers like Walter Benjamin. I think there are certainly undertones of a polemic with the Frankfurt school in here, as well as Freud for example in the Schopenhauer section. The ongoing relation of concepts like religion in Adorno and Benjamin find there philosophical precursors in the German romantics and Kierkegaard. An extremely timely and fascinating read

@Mathilde3219 6 ай бұрын

1:38:28 is frankly rather shocked that scholars on Lukacs have nothing to say on this text and furthermore it seems like none of them have read it … including Adorno!