Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 01:34:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Rookie question -- thanks!


On Mon,Oct 7, 1996 8:49:36 PM, Justin Schwartz wrote: 
 
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>Since I see you're a fRench lit person I utter a word of warning: French 
>Marxism is a depressing business. There's the now unfashionable (highly) 
>existential Marxism (Sartre, Merleau Ponty, etc.): it's pretty obscure, 
>although M-P is always worth reading; he's the best of them. ALthusser and

>his crowd, now also unfashionable, were very infliential for a while and I

>suppose that at some point, given your interests, you will have to get a 
>grip on him, but I for one find him singularly unrewarding. Then therea re

>the old-CPers: Henri Lefevre, Roger Gauraudy, not impressive. The French 
>Marxist historians like Marc Bloc, ALnbert Soboul, and Georges LeFebre are

>a much better bunch. I do9n't know what happened to French philosophy. 
>Alfter Descartes and Bayle it's pretty much downhill. German and 
>Anglo-AMerican Marxism, with the odd Hungarian and Italian thrown in, not 
>to mention early Russian Marxism, are where the action's at. Oh! There's 
>one guy who writes in French but is Brazilian by birth who is very much 
>worth reading: Michael Lowy. Read everything by him you can. 
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>--JUstin 
 
One French Marxist very much worth study is Pierre Naville, an early
associate of Breton and  Trotsky  but independent of both Surrealism and
Trotskyism.  His major book, published in the late 1950's,  is "De
l'Alienation a la Jouissance."  Among contemporary Marxist historians,
outstanding is Pierre Broue, whose quarterly "Archive Leon Trotsky" always
presents fascinating new material. 
(please excuse the absence of diacriticals) 
 
Shane Mage 
 
 
 
>On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Keith Alan Sprouse wrote: 
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>> I'd like to those who took the time to reply to my post for their very 
>> helpful suggestions.  And now it's time to start reading... 
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