In this episode of Pop the Left Douglas Lain and Derick Varn discuss Chris Cutrone's teach-in on Lukacs entitled "CPGB contra Lukacs." Cutrone's lecture was uploaded to the Platypus Affiliated Society's youtube page on Jan 14, 2014 and was a response to Mike McNair's Essay "Lukács: The philosophy trap" which was published in the Weekly Worker in November of 2013.

The Teach-In from 2014

CPGB contra Lukacs teach-in by Chris Cutrone of Platypus

https://youtu.be/FyAx32lzC0U

Why still read Lukács? The place of “philosophical” questions in Marxism

https://platypus1917.org/2014/02/01/why-still-read-lukacs-the-place-of-philosophical-questions-in-marxism

Relevant Essays:

Mike Macnair, "The philosophy trap" 11/21/13

https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/987/lukacs-the-philosophy-trap/

Chris Cutrone, "Defending Marxist Hegelianism against a Marxist critique" 8/11/11

https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/878/defending-marxist-hegelianism-against-a-marxist-cr/

Georg Lukacs, Original Preface (1922) to History and Class Consciousness (1923)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/preface-1922.htm