George Lichtheim
Marxism in Modern France.
Columbia University Press, 1966. First edition. ix/212 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior.
""Marxism in Modern France" is a historical study of Socialist and Communist theory and practice in France since the First World War. After an introductory chapter on the origins of both movements, going back to the Paris Commune of 1871, the author turns to the impact of the Russian Revolution upon the two rival movements whose paths diverged in 1920, and then describes the concurrent transformation of Marxist theory. the role of Leninism in relation to the older Syndicalist movement, and the rise of revisionist neo-Marxist currents after 1945. The relevance of Marxism to the new postbourgeois industrial order in France and Western Europe is discussed in the light of current economic and sociological thought, while the ideological cleavages between orthodox Marxism, Existentialism, and Christian Socialism, are examined with special  reference to the derivation of contemporary French philosophy from German metaphysics. The interplay between the French and German intellectual traditions - starting with Marx himself and continued in the case of his French disciples and critics - furnishes the central theme of a study which attempts to combine the historical treatment of ideas with the sociological analysis of contemporary Western society and the modern labor movement."