Lukacs In His Later Years The Three Major Theoretical Innovation

In the 1950-60s, the rigid model of traditional plan economic of the Soviet Union had become a trammel for the Soviet and all countries of Eastern Europe, reform became a pressing historical task, but the rigid dogmatist idea severely fettered the heads of people. Under such circumstance, the late Georg Lukács wrote two books, Ontology of Social Existence(Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins) and The Process of Democratization(Demokratizierung Heute und Morgen), putted forward three innovative theories according to the new features of times. They are about the renaissance of Marxism, the ontology of social being and the reform of democratic politics of socialism. On the renaissance of Marxism, he formulates the methods of the renaissance of Marxism, the necessaries of developing Marxism and proposes the concrete ways of renewing Marxism. On the ontology of social being, after History and Class Consciousness, he completely proves the system of the birth and development of human society, exhaustively analyses contemporary capitalism and formulates the process and ultimate aim of the development of human society from lower to higher stages. On the reform of the democratic politics of socialism, he intensively studies socialist democracy after Lenin, sums up the experiences and lessons of international communist movement and elaborates the urgency, content, procedure and goal of socialist democracy. The three theories have important theoretical and practical meanings. They will help us to correctly comprehend the essence of Marxism to creatively develop Marxism, help us to give play to historical materialism to carry out socialist reform, and help us to pay attention to and strengthen the construction of the democratization of socialism to consolidate and improve socialist system.