Lukács initially rejected Bolshevism’s claim that terror ends class domination

Evidence

In it, he opposed Bolshevism on the grounds (surprising in someone who admired the greatness of the remark by Hebbel’s Judith, Even if God has set sin between me and the deed which I must dowho am I to try to escape it?') that he could not share the Bolsheviks' belief that dictatorship, terrorism and a final (and consequently particularly merciless) form of class domination could produce the end of all class domination. Nor could he share the metaphysical justification for Bolshevism’, that `good could be created from evil, or, as Razumikhin says in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, that one can lie one’s way to truth’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 313

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 313