Georg Lukács’s work Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein (1923, “History and Class Consciousness,” 1971) is a key text of so-called Western Marxism. Lukács (1885–1971), considered one of the most important Marxist philosophers and literary historians of the 20th century, was often attacked as a “revisionist” by official representatives of Marxism-Leninism. Jewish-messianic sources are among the most important for his conception of the salvific role of the class-conscious proletariat.