Max Weber to Gyorgy Lukacs on the Russian revolution

["Jurriaan Bendien" <J.Bendien@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"In early 1919 Max Weber wrote a letter of doom to his younger colleague and
friend Georg Lukacs, who had by then become a Communist and whom he regarded
as the great promise of German theoretical culture. In this letter Weber
warned Lukacs that the audacious Russian experiment would bereave socialism
of its reputation and authority for a hundred years. Let us conclude with
the most optimistic sentence of this book: of these hundred, sixty years
have already elapsed".

- from Ferenc Feher, Agnes Heller and Gyorgy Markus, Dictatorship over
Needs; An analysis of Soviet Societies. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983, p.299


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