You’re right… I haven’t read much Lukacs… but I’ve read more Marx and Sartre, etc. and have a vague feeling for what is meant by “Class Consciousness.” I’m not suggesting that we shouldn’t strive for more consciousness, or that ½ the way there is the ideal balance… just claiming that it’s not fully possible: we will always have blind-spots, as individuals, and in a “group-think” collective.
To put it in semi-Derridian terms, 100% presence (consciousness) is impossible… and I imagine looking for that Holy Grail of a class which has reached the END of what it can accomplish as far as self-consciousness is concerned is a vain pursuit. That said, again, “agitate, educate, and organize”… all for that “moving in the direction” – but I think part of the consciousness would be realizing that we can’t be fully conscious!—we ARE partially victims of history; a history which we can change by opening ourselves to the (im)possible future, but which, like a billion years of evolutionary heart-beating, can NOT be fully controlled (consciously) by any agent, individual or collective.
What I mean by “radical moderate” has more to do with the global median voter… what Global Democracy held in check by Legal Minority Rights, would yield. Although not incommensurable, I think there would be some miscommunication between “My” theories, and yours, Lukacs, etc. Some overlap, but divergence as well.
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Re: Commoner Whimsy?
Date: 2010-01-23 10:29 pm (UTC)To put it in semi-Derridian terms, 100% presence (consciousness) is impossible… and I imagine looking for that Holy Grail of a class which has reached the END of what it can accomplish as far as self-consciousness is concerned is a vain pursuit. That said, again, “agitate, educate, and organize”… all for that “moving in the direction” – but I think part of the consciousness would be realizing that we can’t be fully conscious!—we ARE partially victims of history; a history which we can change by opening ourselves to the (im)possible future, but which, like a billion years of evolutionary heart-beating, can NOT be fully controlled (consciously) by any agent, individual or collective.
What I mean by “radical moderate” has more to do with the global median voter… what Global Democracy held in check by Legal Minority Rights, would yield. Although not incommensurable, I think there would be some miscommunication between “My” theories, and yours, Lukacs, etc. Some overlap, but divergence as well.