Georg Lukács, the Hungarian literary theorist and communist who wrote in German, played an important role as a renewer of Marxist philosophy until his death in 1971. He was involved in the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 and the Budapest uprising in 1956. In the 1920s, he was considered a left deviationist and revisionist by the KPD. However, for the radical 68ers, Lukács was one of the authors that one had to read. Today, as class analysis is conducted merely through subjective approaches in the guise of cultural sociological analyses, Robert Lanning seeks to bring an original Marxist understanding back to the forefront of class analysis. The sociologist focuses on the influential work of Georg Lukács and his concept of attributed class consciousness. According to Lanning, this Marxist concept remains important because.