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The Citizen of Geneva and the Seigneur of Ferney
“‘To still find pleasure today in authors such as Rousseau compromises a person once and for all.’ If one were to base one’s judgement on the esteem in which the theorist of the ‘will to power’ is today held, one might be persuaded to think that the bi-centenary . . .” read more
Heidegger and Marx
“Invitations to a ‘Marxist’ re-reading of Heidegger are repeated today with ever increasing frequency. Since the suit is pressed with such urgency, and we are recommended so reasonably to avoid adopting an a priori stance, we should at least entertain the suggestion. We therefore propose to devote a . . .” read more
Stalin, Lenin and 'Leninism'
“It has been rightly said that the relationship between Lenin and Stalin ‘is certainly one of the most complex problems that has to be faced’ in studying Soviet history and analysing Stalinism. However, the principal difficulty is not in understanding how deep the differences are between Lenin’s conceptions . . .” read more
Althusser and Stalinism
“The purpose of the following article and its sequel (which will appear in nlr 103) is simply to add a further exploratory contribution, once again partial and full of gaps, to my long-standing research on the genesis of contemporary Marxism. Apart from obvious personal limitations, which naturally . . .” read more
Marx and Darwin
“In the middle of the 19th century, no one could at the time have discerned any relationship between Marx and Darwin, when there appeared almost simultaneously, a few months apart, two works which were in fact to become fundamental for all modern culture: Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie . . .” read more