Original publication date
1923
Pages
xlvii; 356
Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, c1971; First MIT Press edition, May 1971; Fourth Printing, March 1975
Physical description
xlvii, 356 p.; 20.3 cm
ISBN
0262620200 / 9780262620208
Language
Original language
German
Description
Lukacs explores problems of consciousness and organization, drawing on Luxemburg and Lenin. When the proletariat proclaims the dissolution of the existing social order, Marx declares, it does no more than disclose the secret of its own existence, for it is the effective dissolution of that order. ..theory is essentially the intellectual expression of the revolutionary process itself. In it every stage of the process becomes fixed so that it may be generalised, communicated, utilised and developed. Because the theory does nothing but arrest and make conscious each necessary step, it becomes at the same time the necessary premise of the following one -