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György Lukács

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György Lukács
Lukács during the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Born13 April 1885
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died4 June 1971
Budapest, Hungary
NationalityHungarian


György Lukács (13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher. His 1953 work The Destruction of Reason analyzed the course of irrationalism from the failed 1848 revolutions to the rise of imperialism and fascism. Theodor Adorno and George Lichtheim attacked this work while writing in CIA-funded magazines. Lukács described the United States as a de facto dictatorship, with a monopoly over media, bought elections, and state terrorism through lynching, despite the USA's nominally democratic constitution.[1]

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  1. John Bellamy Foster (2023-02-01). "The New Irrationalism" Monthly Review. Archived from the original on 2023-08-06.