Reflexive and Routine Praxis
Praxis is conceptualized in its reflexive as well as non-reflexive variety in Marx (Gouldner 1980:32–33). The reflexive praxis is understood as the moment in the dialectic change, and the non-reflexive one as the routinising mechanism operating within the ideologies as a reproductive or status quo maintaining. It is, for Marx, the non-reflexive habituating praxis, which leads to False consciousness and alienation.
To state it as it is explained by Markoviç (1974:64), moments of praxis include creativity instead of sameness, autonomy instead of subordination, sociality instead of massification, rationality instead of blind reaction and intentionality rather than compliance.
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