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their transition to objectivity remains contemplative and fails to become praxis

Lukács contents himself with Schopenhauer's aperçu that

the demand for pragmatic fidelity to life can only refer to a writer's basic experience of reality and the membra disjecta of the subject-matter from which he fashions his work

the early writings, which were disparaged by his Party and which he had himself abjured

Brecht's disorientation before the revolt of the proletariat that belied (realized) his politics