Was it merely due to the increasing sway of neoliberal ideology in the PRC?

Towards what horizon the mega-junk of the PRC is moving resists calculation, at least of any current astrolabe

A few years later, the analysis of reification of History and Class Consciousness (1919–1923) will offer a Marxist way out from those contradictions

But of course the world of The Theory of the Novel is characterized by the opposite state of affairs—by the ‘refusal of the immanence of meaning to enter into empirical life’.

Theory of the Novel belongs to the small circle of masterpieces—Baudelaire’s tableaux, Flaubert’s novels, Manet’s paintings, Ibsen’s plays, or, indeed, Weber’s last lectures—where the rules of bourgeois existence are at once ineluctable and bankrupt

our aim was to promote an independent culture of publishing and conversation—a kind of Habermasian public sphere

But the case to be made here is not just against Facebook; it’s a case against neoliberalism.

I’m not saying that there should be a Stasi-like operation soaking up everyone’s data.

Marx’s first version of historical materialism was a history of the division of labour, but the latter term had a meaning in this period that it would subsequently lose: ‘Division of labour and private property are . . . identical expressions.’

Within the larger field of bourgeois ideology, a German tendency could be distinguished from the Anglo-French one. The Hegelian school professed the primacy of the ideals of a people