Kommunismus was shut down by the Comintern for insufficient loyalty

Evidence

After the collapse of the Hungarian Soviet Republic as a result of military attacks by the Romanians, supported by the Entente, Lukács fled to Vienna. Among the Viennese émigrés, he was at first the leading member of the Hungarian Communist Party and editor-in-chief of the journal Kommunismus, the Third International’s official theoretical organ for south-eastern Europe. Its publication was stopped in October 1921 on the instructions of the Executive Committee of the Comintern on grounds of insufficient loyalty. Lukács brought out several of the articles he published in this journal in book form in 1923, supplemented mainly by the essay `Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat’, under the title History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 318

Categorization

• XREF: Dates the composition context of History and Class Consciousness and its ambiguous status within the Comintern — useful for the reader’s institutional history of the Frankfurt School’s Marxist lineage.