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The starting-point for the thesis of the explosion of consciousness is a quotation from Marx which has become one of the favourites of twentieth-century Marxists:
It is not a question of what this or that proletarian or even the whole proletariat momentarily imagines to be the aim. It is a question of what the proletariat is and what it consequently is historically compelled to do.1
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Mann, M. (1973). The Explosion of Consciousness. In: Consciousness and Action among the Western Working Class. Studies in Sociology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01581-8_6
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