ABSTRACT
Lukács argued in the 1920s that revisionism must be met and orthodoxy re-established by emphasising the Hegelian aspects of Marxism. The writings of Marx on the subject are few and unsystematic; a reader in 1923, like the modern reader, would have found the classical exposition of Marxist dialectics in the writings of Engels. He would not have had access to The Dialectics of Nature, the book on dialectics which Engels left unfinished and which was first published in 1925, but he could have read the essay Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, published in 1886, in which Engels discussed the relations between Marxism and Hegelianism. Lukács now turns to the philosophy of Hegel. Hegel came closer to a solution of the problem of rationalism, in that his philosophy recognises the importance of history.
