It is appropriate and telling that in concluding the analysis of class Consciousness and as a transition to the reification chapter, Lukacs emphasised the proletariats 'ideological crisis' and then warned: we must never overlook the distance that separates the consciousness of even the most revolutionary workers from the authentic class consciousness of the proletariat'. In Taitism Lukacs reiterated this sentiment, now elevated to the status of a Marxist theoretical imperative. Referring again to the inevitable difference between the objectively possible proletarian class consciousness and the everyday consciousness of individual workers, he insisted: Utlhe proletariat have a correct knowledge of the historical process and its individual stages, in accordance with its class position. With the failure of the expected revolution clearly in mind, Lukacs responded to his own question of whether the proletariat always has this knowledge' with the unsurprising answer: "Not at all.' And he concluded: "inasmuch as this distance is acknowledged to be a fact, it is the duty of every Marxist to reflect seriously on its causes importantly -on the means of overcoming it.