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History and Class Consciousness
Overview
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (German: Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein – Studien über marxistische Dialektik) is a collection of essays by the Hungarian Marxist philosopher György Lukács, first published in 1923. It is a seminal work in the development of Western Marxism, moving beyond the economism and determinism of the Second International and exploring the dialectical relationship between the subject and object of history, particularly class consciousness and reification.
The book is the work for which Lukács is best known. Nevertheless, it was condemned in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and Lukács later repudiated its ideas, coming to believe that in it he had confused Hegel's concept of alienation with that of Marx's.
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The organization of the advanced Communist party in Germany was of this kind. In accordance with the principles of the "Manifesto"[11] (published in 1848), and with those explained in the series of articles on "Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany," published in the _New York Daily Tribune_, this party never imagined itself capable of producing, at any time and at its pleasure, that revolution which was to…
Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
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This self-consciousness now works itself out into the higher stages from the lower forms of matter, until finally the Absolute Idea is again realized in the Hegelian philosophy. According to Hegel, the dialectic development apparent in nature and history, that is a causative, connected progression from the lower to the higher, in spite of all zig-zag movements and momentary setbacks, is only the stereotype of the…
Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach
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The materialistic conception of history, as it is called, is due to Marx, and underlies the whole Communist philosophy. I do not mean, of course, that a man could not be a Communist without accepting it, but that in fact it is accepted by the Communist Party, and that it profoundly influences their views as to politics and tactics.
Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
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Philosophers who discussed History and Class Consciousness
Related ideas
- Vladimir Lenin
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Guy Debord
- Jürgen Habermas
- Slavoj Žižek
- Karl Mannheim
- Marx's theory of alienation
- Marxism
- Materialism
- Soviet Union
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Richard Lewontin
- Georgi Plekhanov
- Hardcover
- Second International
- György Lukács
- Proletariat
- Dialectical materialism
- Western Marxism
- Friedrich Engels
- Subject and object (philosophy)
- Determinism
- Dialectic
- Being and Time
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Part of Communism.
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