This rational objectification conceals above all the immediate--- qualitative and ial---character of things as things. When use values appear universally as commod ities they acquire a new objectiv ity, a new substantial ity which they did not possess in an age of episod ic exchange and which destroys their orig inal and authentic substantialist B, the reified consciousness and the phenomena of reification Not the separation between reality and consciousness (naive materialism); But the reified consciousness is actually one moments within the structure of reification: by indentify ing the quantitative mode of calculability as the authentic immediate, it makes the commod ity character of the commodity as the only, the permanent ." Just as the Capitalist system continuously produces and reproduces tself economically on higher and higher levels, the structure of reification progressively sinks more deeply, more fatefully and more definitely into the consciousness of man. (p93) C. the universal domination of reified consciousness (a)The ruling class(the influence of Max Weber's criticism of modern bureaucracy) This unity(the unified structure of consciousness)expressed itself in the fact that the problems of consciousness arising from wage-labor were repeated in the ruling class in a refined and spiritualized, but for that reason, more intensified form. " (p100) (bThe bourgeois theory Classical economics: can not understand use value: can not understand crisis Jurisprudence: can not understand the origin of laws They are systematically abandoning the attempt to ground law in reason and to give it a rational content law is henceforth to be regarded as formal calculus with the aid of which the legal consequences of particular actions could be determined as exactly (p108) Philosophy (Three moments: the dogmatic rationalist philosophy, the4 “This rational objectification conceals above all the immediate--- qualitative and material --- character of things as things. When use values appear universally as commodities they acquire a new objectivity, a new substantiality which they did not possess in an age of episodic exchange and which destroys their original and authentic substantiality.” B, the reified consciousness and the phenomena of reification Not the separation between reality and consciousness (naïvematerialism); But the reified consciousness is actually one moments within the structure of reification: by indentifying the quantitative mode of calculability as the authentic immediate, it makes the commodity character of the commodity as the only, the permanent: “…Just as the Capitalist system continuously produces and reproduces itself economically on higher and higher levels, the structure of reification progressively sinks more deeply, more fatefully and more definitely into the consciousness of man.”(p93) C, the universal domination of reified consciousness (a)The ruling class (the influence of Max Weber’s criticism of modern bureaucracy): “This unity (the unified structure of consciousness) expressed itself in the fact that the problems of consciousness arising from wage-labor were repeated in the ruling class in a refined and spiritualized, but for that reason, more intensified form.”(p100) (b)The bourgeois theory Classical economics: can not understand use value; can not understand crisis Jurisprudence: can not understand the origin of laws “They are systematically abandoning the attempt to ground law in reason and to give it a rational content; law is henceforth to be regarded as formal calculus with the aid of which the legal consequences of particular actions could be determined as exactly as possible.” (p108) Philosophy (Three moments: the dogmatic rationalist philosophy, the