Reification And The Proletariat Lead Revolution Analysis

So far the world has been developing with a shocking similarity to what most Marxists have predicted. The world has been divided into two groups: the bourgeois and the proletariat, the haves and the have-nots. The bourgeois is, despite its great disadvantages in the number of members, the dominant class that controls the process of production. Under capitalism, the bourgeois exploits and oppresses the proletariat to maximizes their own benefit. The proletariat has a far greater number, yet remained the downtrodden social class. Different Marxists provided a different solution to this grim reality, some are more optimistic while others are more pessimistic. Georg Lukács developed the concept of reification and argued that the working class will lead the communist revolution against the injustice of capitalism. This prophecy, however, has yet to be fulfilled. In this paper, I will attempt to explain his conceptualization of reification and his prediction of the proletariat-lead revolution. Just like all academic publications, Lukács wrote this to join the ‘conversation’ of existing literature. His intention is to expand Marxism, considering aspects that other types of Marxism have yet to consider. Lukács (1923) criticized orthodox Marxism, a scholarship …show more content…
We have to overcome narrow differences and political response to somehow only economy matters. We focus on the differences of our skin tone, gender, and sexual orientation, so much that we have failed to realize, as the economy is the base of all activity, class difference between the bourgeois and the proletariat operates at a macro, micro, and mezzo level. We differentiate because we don’t take into account of the objectivity reality. Not only are we not focusing the real threat - capitalism, the proletariats are also being separated regarding their appearances, orientations, and beliefs. This further dissipates our ability to revolt against the