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Zalkin
14th October 2014, 00:33
What articles, books, lectures, videos, etc should I check out to get my feet wet with the concept of totality?

ckaihatsu
16th October 2014, 05:37
[1] History, Macro Micro -- Precision

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[22] History, Macro Micro

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Hit The North
19th October 2014, 17:37
Lib com has a reasonably clear outline of the concept in Marxism here: https://libcom.org/library/incomplete-marx-felton-c-shorthall-4

Otherwise I expect Lukac's History & Class Consciousness is the source -the chapter on The Standpoint of the Proletariat. Its available on MIA, I think.

Fakeblock
19th October 2014, 18:01
Althusser's essays 'On the Materialist Dialectic' and 'Contradiction and Overdetermination' (both from book 'For Marx') are excellent resources on the Marxist concept of totality.