ABSTRACT
One of the main hindrances to development of the Marxian ideas in a sociological direction was their excessively materialist and ultimately crude dissemination by the communist and the social-democratic parties in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. The spectacles through which Georg Lukacs approaches Marx and Marxism are composed of several perceptual elements deriving from his intellectual development. Based on Marx's discussion of bourgeois economic theory in the 1859 Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Capital and Theories of Surplus Value, Lukacs employs the critique of bourgeois social science which is the basis of Marx's epistemology, but subverts it in the sense that he extends it to an attack on a scientific explanation of social reality. In championing the totality, the dialectical method, Lukacs is putting forward a philosophically self-conscious Hegelianized Marxism. The Marxist theoretician has been given a messianic, prophetic role in the socialist transformation of reality.
