Marxism: An End to Revolution

In the late nineteenth century, Marxism was superimposed on an already formidable revolutionary movement in France. Marxism claimed the faith of proletarians and revolutionary intellectuals alike, as the union of theory and practice which the movement required but would not find in France’s own intellectual and revolutionary past. In his Marxism in Modern France, George Lichtheim denies that French Marxism even attained this union. However, his study of the interplay of Marxist theory a...