History and Class Consciousness

Studies in Marxist Dialectics

Georg Lukács author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The Merlin Press Ltd

Published:1st Jan '91

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Lukacs explores problems of consciousness and organization, drawing on Luxemburg and Lenin. "When the proletariat proclaims the dissolution of the existing social order," Marx declares, "it does no more than disclose the secret of its own existence, for it is the effective dissolution of that order." ..theory is essentially the intellectual expression of the revolutionary process itself. In it every stage of the process becomes fixed so that it may be generalised, communicated, utilised and developed. Because the theory does nothing but arrest and make conscious each necessary step, it becomes at the same time the necessary premise of the following one -

"one of the indispensable works of the twentieth century." Raymond Williams, Guardian. "It is unquestionably, a work of extraordinary intellectual power. A central feature is the importance Luka?s attached to ideology as a weapon in the class struggle." Tribune

ISBN: 9780850361971

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397 pages

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