"LukScs may be said to have done for Communism

what Oswald Speng]er did for the rival Fascist

movement. After Lenin s death in 1924, Russian

Communism produced few original thinkers, and

none of global significance. In consequence,

Luk~cs intellectual heresies assumed an impor-

tance they had not at first possessed. Central

Europe being the principal arena of politico-ideo-

logical confrontation in the 1920s and 1930s, the

passions stirred by these controversies gradually

spread to wider circles In contrast, Luk~cs has

not in recent years exercised much influence upon

the younger generation of Marxist writers in Cen-

tral or Eastern Europe. In general they have found

him too orthodox and in particular too deeply wed-

ded to the notions current in Soviet literature."