The Historical Evolution of"Class Consciousness"——From Marx,Lukacs to Laclau
In order to realize the liberation of the proletariat and the liberation of mankind,Marx not only studied the historical conditions for the outbreak of the socialist revolution at the objective level,but also divided the history of the proletarian movement into phases in it-self and in itself according to the class consciousness or not at the subjective level.At the beginning of the 20th century,when thinking about the failure of socialist revolutions in Western Europe,Lukacs linked class consciousness with the theory of totality,hoping to revive the class consciousness of the proletariat and restore the totality of the proletariat under new conditions.In the 1980s,Laclaut made class cate-gory historicized on the pretext that he not only deconstructed the transcendental nature of proletarian subject in Marxism,but also used the i-dentity consciousness based on discourse theory to dissolve class consciousness,thus advocating a pluralistic political subject concept.