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Much of what distinguishes Infrared from all Marxist schools of thought in the West is its fundamental rejection of [[György Lukács]], the seminal thinker of all Western Marxist traditions. While the majority of Social-Democratic Marxists openly regressed into revisionism, repudiating the revolutionary aspirations of Marxist thinking, Lukács is widely regarded as the founder of Western Marxism proper due to preserving a vague commitment to its revolutionary aspirations, as the broad 'emancipation' of all humanity and society. | Much of what distinguishes Infrared from all Marxist schools of thought in the West is its fundamental rejection of [[György Lukács]], the seminal thinker of all Western Marxist traditions. While the majority of Social-Democratic Marxists openly regressed into revisionism, repudiating the revolutionary aspirations of Marxist thinking, Lukács is widely regarded as the founder of Western Marxism proper due to preserving a vague commitment to its revolutionary aspirations, as the broad 'emancipation' of all humanity and society. | ||
Additionally, Lukács originally defended actually existing socialist states, and in his earlier years is widely regarded to have been a 'Stalinist.' However in Infrared's view thinkers like Lukács, alongside and in parallel with the | Additionally, Lukács originally defended actually existing socialist states, and in his earlier years is widely regarded to have been a 'Stalinist.' However in Infrared's view thinkers like Lukács, alongside and in parallel with the Frankfurt School, were just as afflicted with neo-Kantian revisionism as the rest of Western Social Democracy. According to this view, Lukács did not 'preserve' Marxism, but rather opportunistically elected to revise the essence of Marxism in the first placing an overly-exaggerated emphasis on 'sociality' as the ultimate transcendent horizon in direct opposition to nature. | ||
'Western Marxism' was therefore founded upon the rejection of objectivity in Marxism, as it was expressed by Frederich Engels in ''Dialectics of Nature''. This led to the complete dominance of both the 'social-constructivist' tendency in Western Marxism, which eventually regresses into the insanity of contemporary identity and cultural 'politics.' It additionally led to an overall rejection of Actually Existing Socialist countries, on account of an inability to recognize the ''integral'' ''objectivity'' of history, reducing it instead to the transcendental horizon of 'inter-subjective and discursively mediated social relations.' | 'Western Marxism' was therefore founded upon the rejection of objectivity in Marxism, as it was expressed by Frederich Engels in ''Dialectics of Nature''. This led to the complete dominance of both the 'social-constructivist' tendency in Western Marxism, which eventually regresses into the insanity of contemporary identity and cultural 'politics.' It additionally led to an overall rejection of Actually Existing Socialist countries, on account of an inability to recognize the ''integral'' ''objectivity'' of history, reducing it instead to the transcendental horizon of 'inter-subjective and discursively mediated social relations.' | ||