Korsch's 'Road to Marx
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11050009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Breines (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 1975 |
| Issue | 26 |
| Pages | 42-56 |
| Publication date | 1975-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/1275026042 |
| OpenAlex | W2332905000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The two men who initiated what came to be called Western Marxism were both bankers' sons. It is a nice coincidence, but it entails a contrast, by way of reminder that Georg Lukács' and Karl Korsch's closely linked reconstructions of Marxian theory in the early 1920s were far from identical. Jozsef von Lukács, father of the author of History and Class Consciousness, was the managing director of the Budapest Kreditanstalt, Hungary's largest bank, and thus a member of Central Europe's financial aristocracy. He had received the noble title—the ‘von’ in German—in recognition of his services to the Austro-Hungarian crown. His son, on becoming a communist in 1919, would drop the ‘von’ from his name, but would produce a Marxian theory with a grandeur and bold sweep befitting his social roots
Aristocracy (class · Class consciousness · Communism · Economic history · German · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |