When the young Georg Lukacs wrote “Bolshevism As A Moral Problem,” he rejected communism on “moral” grounds: its violent revolution coerces the people, and coercion does not engender freedom. We cannot rid ourselves of Satan with the help of Beelzebub. Nonetheless, in late 1918, only a few weeks later, he joined the Hungarian Communist Party.This strange incident introduces the life of the eventual philosopher and literary critic who found, early on, that there is something corrupt in his world.

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