[...] Georg Lukács criticized this view, noting the alignment between Bukharin’s analysis and the ideology of the capitalist world’s view of science: “The closeness of Bukharin’s theory to bourgeois, natural-scientific materialism derives from his use of ‘science’ (in the French sense) as a model.” Lukács insisted that a true historical materialist analysis meant that science and technology could not be divorced from the class system in which they were embedded. “In its concrete application to society and history,” he wrote, “it therefore frequently obscures the specific feature of Marxism: that all economic or ‘sociological’ phenomena derive from the social relations of men to one another .” For Lukács, this meant that capitalist production is not so easily divorced from capitalism’s class structure and its prerogatives to rule and control workers, particularly at the point of production [...]

[...] Here Benjamin sounds similar notes as the Wobbly proponents of sabotage. Redemption from capitalism and its violence will not come from a simple appropriation of its devices. Instead, he suggests, it is borne on the backs of those sedimented experiences of the nameless people who fought against them, who broke, jammed, sabotaged—who grabbed for the emergency brake—in their circumstances. This is the raw material of future emancipation [...]