Praxis

Praxis, though, may also be understood in a higher sense, as it was by Lukács, as a revolutionary act of self-consciousness. We change history by understanding history, and our understanding of history is a part of history. The dialectic is not a Jacobin revolution, at least not necessarily, but moment of self-awareness in which the universal class of the alienated (the proletariat) seizes the understanding of its own role in history and thereby transforms humanity on a spiritual and cognitive level. The ‘dreaming’ then is not anti-praxis, but is, in point of fact, the essence of praxis, as the dream-end determines the form of the process itself.[@parallaxoptics, Feb 8, 2018]