Lukács’s book kept many young European intellectuals loyal to Bolshevized communism
Evidence
A number of communistsamong them Karl Korsch, of course, but also, before Lukács was officially condemned at the Fifth Congress of the Comintern, Wittfogel, for examplehailed History and Class Consciousness as a manifestation of revolutionary, activist Marxism. In the years that followed, the book became, for many young intellectuals, a reason for remaining in the Communist Party, which had now been Bolshevized, or for joining it in the first place, or at least for sympathizing with the communist cause. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 323
Categorization
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