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The history of an error

An attempt at philosophic criticism

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Lukács has had a colorful career as a Communist theoretician. One of the strangest events is the fact that he continued to recant in 1967, when there was no longer the external pressure to do so. This may be due to the fact that his differences with Marx on subject-object, praxis, etc., are not those of a humanist.

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Kovaly, P. The history of an error. Studies in Soviet Thought 13, 20–54 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01044327

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