The Erased Contexts

The first essay in György Lukács’ book History and Class Consciousness addresses the question „what is orthodox Marxism?”. The essay here attempts to explore the meaning of this question through its contexts; it also argues that Lukács himself did his best to obscure (suppress) these contexts. Lukács speaks of „bourgeois” and „proletarian circles” – this is the starting point of the analysis. Through an exploration of these contexts, this paper attempts to approach what Lukács considered his own theoretical and practical mission in the first half of the 1920s.