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Gyorgy Lukacs

13 April 1885-4 June 1971

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Consciousness is an act which changes the very object. As opposed to mere knowledge of an object, it is practical.

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Consciousness is opposed to knowledge. If knowledge is external to the known object, consciousness is an act which changes the very object.

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Ideology is a set of factors that does not just mask economic interests in favor of slogans; the economic interests are the components of which the struggle is made.

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Ideology is the inducement to turn away from the assumption of meaning within human activity.

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Knowledge is opposed to consciousness. If consciousness is an act which changes the very object, knowledge is external to the known object.

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Reification is the structural process whereby the commodity form permeates life in capitalist society.