Althusser

In the international renaissance of Marxist theory during the 1960s and early 1970s few projects generated as much excitement or controversy as Louis Althusser''s ''return to Marx''. One of the most ambitious enterprises in the post-war history of Marxism, Althusser''s reconstruction of Marx''s doctrine was heralded as a new start in some quarters, dismissed as a refurbished Stalinism in others.

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