Lukács knowingly accepted communist orthodoxy despite knowing his critics were right

Evidence

No wonder, then, that Lukács’ life work fails to be understood from the inside, as a set of solutions and problems developing out of one another according to their own inner logic and momentum; no wonder his works are taken to be external signs of arbitrary positions, symptoms meaningless in themselves and comprehensible only in terms of shifts in the party line. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 339 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lukács’s work is misread as party-line symptoms instead of internal logic — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 339

Broader Connections

• Lukács’s work is misread as party-line symptoms instead of internal logic #complicates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 339