Lukács reframed his cultural critique as a cultural-revolutionary reading of communism

Evidence

In earlier references to the proletariat and to socialism, the latest of which had appeared in Bolshevism as a Moral Problem', Lukács had criticized both the lack of a religious power capable of suffusing the whole soul’ and the merely ideological character of the objectives which the socialist world order had in ethics and in the philosophy of history. He now declared that a cultural, intellectual revolution was at the heart of the proletarian class struggle. The awakening of the proletariat to self-consciousness, to class consciousness, in his view, would bring the process of social development as a whole to consciousness; everyday life would be suffused with essential life, human beings would become active agents in true reality. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 315

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 315