Lukács’s route to Marx passed through an inescapable Hegelian frame

Evidence

Perhaps the philosophic dress that Marx gave to his Socialism had really not much to do with the basis of his opinions. It is easy to restate the most important part of what he had to say without any reference to the dialectic. He was impressed by the appalling cruelty of the industrial system as it existed in England a hundred years ago, which he came to know thoroughly through Engels and the reports of Royal Commissions. He saw that the system was likely to develop from free competition towards monopoly, and that its injustice must produce a movement of revolt in the proletariat. He held that, in a thoroughly industrialized community, the only alternative to private capitalism is State ownership of land and capital. … The Hegelian trappings might therefore be dropped with advantage. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2857 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marx’s core socialism can stand without his Hegelian dialectic — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2857; Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them; Philosophy of praxis transforms Hegelian immanentism into absolute historicism and humanism (+4 more)

Related

• Marx’s core socialism can stand without his Hegelian dialectic (similarity 0.91)
• Lukács’s anti-modernist realism bias descends from Hegelian historicism (similarity 0.81)
• Kracauer saw Lukács’s Marxism as exhausted idealism rather than genuine innovation (similarity 0.80)
• Idealist and orthodox-Marxist critics alike denied Marx’s Hegelian dialectical lineage (similarity 0.80)
• Marx planned a separate work on dialectics stripping Hegel’s mystical form. (similarity 0.79)
• Marx’s inversion of Hegel is oppositional, not a simple turn from idealism to materialism (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Marx’s core socialism can stand without his Hegelian dialectic #contradicts (0.70) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2857
• Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them #complicates (0.40)