Reappraisals and Appreciations

The reception of Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness has always been fraught, even frankly hostile. The early attacks among Marxists in the Soviet Union and Hungary provoked Lukács to write a clarifying “Defense” of his book, but he did not publish it and it has only recently been available. Those early attacks were effective: History and Class Consciousness practically…

I had to be reminded that 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20thcentury:  W.E.B. Dubois. Du Bois passed away the day before the legendary 1963 March on Washington.  In fact, a few months prior to his death he wrote a solidarity statement with those engaged in the march.  A…