This document discusses perspectives on everyday life from Marx, Simmel, Lukacs, and Benjamin. Marx saw capitalism transforming social practices and relationships into commodified exchange. Simmel sought to understand everydayness itself, not just as revealing deeper structures, while Lukacs initially saw the everyday as inauthentic but later saw it as a site of class struggle. Benjamin agreed with Simmel that the everyday must be explored both materially and psychologically, and saw in it potential for utopian transformation rather than looking to the past. They shared a determination not to view the everyday as a mere backdrop.