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History and Class Consciousness, György Lukács

I got it at a bookstore one day because the shelf note on it from one of the staff members made it seem interesting, didn't really know what I was getting into.

Apparently I had bought a book full of real Bolshevik philosophy essays from a Hungarian "Orthodox Marxist" philosopher, like what Zero to One would be in the USSR.

It was written in the 1920s before the whole Soviet project imploded, and what was fascinating about it for me was how precise it tried to be about the nature of how human processes and how they change. In hindsight, we know that the Soviet vision was bound by a ton of contradictions, but this book was like an inside view of a part of history I didn't really know much about, and kinda made me realize how easy it is to find some new wrinkle to history you had never considered before. Got me reading a lot more interesting histories of places.

Here's an excerpt from the book, the whole thing and all the essays are actually free online. On "Orthodox Marxism" (something I didn't even know could be classified that way lol)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/orthod...