Lukács’s work is misread as party-line symptoms instead of internal logic

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

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘inner logic and momentum’ of a thinker’s problems is precisely Benjamin’s concept constellation and Adorno’s immanent critique — the reader’s core Frankfurt method being modeled on Lukács’s behalf. — connects to: Anti-Communist bias distorted English reception of Lukács and Sartre; Lukacs’s Leninist loyalty and anti-modernist taste limited his critical flexibility — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 537; Lukács knowingly accepted communist orthodoxy despite knowing his critics were right

Broader Connections

• Anti-Communist bias distorted English reception of Lukács and Sartre #corroborates (0.82)
• Lukacs’s Leninist loyalty and anti-modernist taste limited his critical flexibility #complicates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 537