Marxism’s 1920s dialectics project traces directly back to Marx’s own declared plan

Evidence

Korsch had described his book on Marxism and Philosophy in 1923 as the first part of a larger work on Historical and Logical Inquiries on the Question of Materialist Dialectics'. In the same year, Lukács had given his volume of essays on History and Class Consciousness the subtitle Studies in Marxist Dialectics’. In the preface, Lukács had referred to Marx’s letter of 1868 to Joseph Dietzgen, which stated: `When I have shaken off my burden of economics, I will write a “Dialectics”. The true laws of dialectics are already to be found in Hegel, albeit in a mystical form. What is needed is to strip them of that form.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 198

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Marx’s 1868 Dietzgen letter as a primary-source anchor for the whole Western Marxist ‘dialectics’ problem-complex. — connects to: Notes on Dialectics rescued Marxism when Lenin’s legacy threatened its relevance — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1322; Marx explained modes of production evolving and dissolving through their own contradictions. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881
• DEFINE: Clarifies that ‘dialectics’ was a projected book-title-level project spanning Marx, Lukács, and Korsch, not just a method label.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Notes on Dialectics rescued Marxism when Lenin’s legacy threatened its relevance — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1322; Marx explained modes of production evolving and dissolving through their own contradictions. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881