Abstract

Any history of Marxism from Marx to the Frankfurt School which proceeds through the Second International to Lukács, Gramsci, and Korsch to more recent Marxist reformulations will not make much sense since no continuity will be possible to establish. In fact, to understand any version of Marxism after Lukács and the 1920s (excluding, of course, the vulgar varieties of many “orthodox” renditions) it is crucial to critically examine the neo-Kantian debates around the turn of the century. This is the proper context within which to trace the philosophical and socio-historical problematic of the Lukacs of History and Class-Consciousness and of all further “Western Marxism.”