The book helped to create Western Marxism and is the work for which Lukács is best known. Some of Lukács’s pronouncements in History and Class Consciousness have become famous. Nevertheless, it was condemned in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and Lukács later repudiated its ideas, and came to believe that in it he had confused Hegel’s concept of alienation with that of Marx. It has been suggested that the concept of reification as employed in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927) shows the strong influence of History and Class Consciousness, though such a relationship remains disputed_Wikipedia_
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