#BUDYAKNINA (#BE LIKE NINA MOVEMENT) AND A REMAKE OF THE CONCEPT OF CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS IN PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL PRACTICE: A CORPUS APPROACH (ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF GYÖRGY LUKÁCS’ «HISTORY AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS» (1923-2023))
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This paper presents a corpus-based, interdisciplinary, empirical study in social philosophy of the possibilities of remaking the concept and practice of class consciousness in metamodernism based on four sources: the works of prominent Western philosophers from 1900-2023 (5064 English-language books and articles), the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (43 volumes), the writings of Ukrainian sociologist Olena Symonchuk, and the Facebook posts in the group of the Ukrainian medical women’s movement #BudyakNina (#Be like Nina). The first two sources allowed us to understand the primary logic of this concept, but also its philosophical rationale and contradictions in the context of the twentieth-century historical experience, including the transformations in Western society and proletarian revolutions. It was found that reason, homogeneity, and purposefulness, which were expected in theory from the practice of the workers’ revolutionary movement, were manifested instead by the ruling class, who integrated the working class in the West. In the East, instead of genuinely proletarian revolutions, there was a resurgence of tyranny over and alienation from the broad popular masses by professional revolutionaries, and later by state-party bureaucracy.
However, the concept of class consciousness can only be partially considered obsolete since it implies stages of class consciousness development. The last two sources in our study demonstrated that in contemporary Ukrainian conditions, it is possible to speak of the formation of two stages of class consciousness development: understanding one’s own interests and inequality. This creates opportunities to assert that the metamodernist revival of history has also implications for the concept and practice of class consciousness among contemporary workers. This offers hope for a more successful remake of the emancipatory potential of Marxist ideas to address the modern crisis of capitalist humanity in the 21st century.
It should be emphasized that this research was conducted using corpus linguistics, allowing for the analysis of large volumes of texts by both philosophers and participants in the #BudyakNina (#Be like Nina) movement. This approach enabled us to identify the main contexts and conceptual focus of their texts, providing a strong empirical foundation for the entire study.
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