“Bourgeois thought judges social phenomena conscious or unconsciously, naïvely or subtly, consistently from the standpoint of the individual. No path leads from the individual to the totality.”

Source: History and Class Consciousness (1968), p. 28

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Marxist philosopher and literary critic 1885–1971

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