The Identity Crisis of West European Communists

If a mechanical materialism, a vulgar Marxism, were really operating one might say that France, after 20 years of visible modernization, would by now have produced a very different Communist party. It is overwhelming to arrive for the first time at Roissy, the new airport now named Charles de Gaulle, a Gallic fantasy in conception and construction by contrast with which Orly is simply another Idlewild. It is striking, too, to take the new highways to the area alongside the Bois de Boulogne wh...