Lukács conflated the commodity of labour with the commodity of labour-power.

Evidence

‘Lukács’s reckless use of the expression “the commodity of labour” and his implicit equation of it with the expression “the commodity of labour-power” shows that he is apparently unable to understand Marx’s distinction between the substance and the economic form of labour, and is thus unable to define the specific character of the capitalist production of commodities with respect to reification in the Marxian sense’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 108

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the founding text of Western Marxism criticism may rest on a category error that its entire tradition inherited.
• XREF: connects to: Lukács located revolutionary agency in workers’ self-awareness as commodities — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 66; Professional behavioural modification sectors strengthened capital’s power over workers and consumers. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 842