Abstract

To paraphrase an insight of Karl Korsch's: the recent rejuvenation of interest in the work of Georg Lukacs, above all his epochal History and Class Consciousness, is part of the “other side” of the recent awakening of actual, revolutionary activity; a component of that side of today's emergent revolution through which the latter seeks to become conscious of itself. It is a mark of the power of Lukacs’ mind that, while his most heralded and infamous book was produced within the final outburst of the 19th century revolutionary movement (namely, the proletarian uprising following World War One), it succeeded in deeply and tenaciously grasping some of the nuclear problems of revolution in the mid-20th century.