Georg Lukács (1885–1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

The centenary edition of a classic in Marxist philosophy

Translator’s Note
Preface to the centenary edition (2023)
Preface to the new edition (1967)
Preface
What is Orthodox Marxism?
The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg
Class Consciousness
Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat
I The Phenomenon of Reifi The Phenomenon of Reification
II The Antinomies of Bourgeois Thought
III The Standpoint of the Proletariat
The Changing Function of Historical Materialism
Legality and Illegality
Critical Observations on Rosa Luxemburg’s "Critique of the Russian Revolution"
Towards a Methodology of the Problem of Organisation
Notes to the English Edition
Index