My copy of, "History and Class Consciousness, " by Lukacs, published by UK left press, Merlin, I bought at Collets in London. Blurbed on the back by Christopher Hitchens when published in 1971. He isn't someone unacquainted with the marxist classics from Trotsky, Deutscher, Luxemburg and many others.
Methinks alot of the detractors of Hitchens (and I don't think any of those defending him here are w/o criticisms of his schizo turn) here on lbo- talk have read that much of Hitchens over the decades. Read up all those volumes published by Verso over the yrs. collecting his writings. Esp. you Gordon, Hitchens has written a bit about Victor Serge, who I'd think is one of your heroes, being a Bolshevik for a time that never lost his libertarian socialist/anarchist grounding. Michael Pugliese