Lukács’s reification essay fused Weber and Marx to anchor revolutionary Marxism.

Evidence

For Lukács, the decisive element was not a process of radical change directed by knowledge and motivated by indignation. It was a kind of knowledge which was, as knowledge, practical, and an act of achieving consciousness which was in itself an action. The combination of Weber’s theory of rationalization and Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism with an idealistic class-struggle philosophy of history made the essay on Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat' the most effective in the whole book. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 322</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lukács fused Weber’s rationalization with Marx’s fetishism to make practical knowledge revolutionary.; Lukács fused Weber’s rationalization and Marx’s fetishism with idealist class struggle — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 322; Lukács’s route to Marx passed through an inescapable Hegelian frame

Broader Connections

• Lukács fused Weber’s rationalization with Marx’s fetishism to make practical knowledge revolutionary. #corroborates (0.95)
• Lukács fused Weber’s rationalization and Marx’s fetishism with idealist class struggle #expands (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 322
• Lukács’s route to Marx passed through an inescapable Hegelian frame #expands (0.75)