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== A New Beginning for Western Marxism ==

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 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.

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 == A New Beginning for Western Marxism ==
-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 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.