Proletarian self-knowledge as commodity is already practical, not merely theoretical

Evidence

If the proletarian now ‘becomes aware of himself as a commodity’, this selfknowledge already becomes practical because the proletarian recognises himself as ‘identical subject-object, the subject of action’, or in other words, as the actual reproducer of the social order. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 75

Categorization

• XREF: This is the crux of Lukács’s ‘identical subject-object’ that both Adorno and later Lukács himself abandoned — connects to the ‘pessimistic cul-de-sac’ reading the whole book is revising. — connects to: Materialist mentality self-reinforces through its own dissemination; The sphere of exchange generates capitalism’s spontaneous commonsense and bourgeois theory; For Lukács, proletarian class consciousness would bring social development to self-consciousness — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 315

Broader Connections

• Materialist mentality self-reinforces through its own dissemination #corroborates (0.82)
• The sphere of exchange generates capitalism’s spontaneous commonsense and bourgeois theory #corroborates (0.78)