Volume 27, Number 9 · May 29, 1980
Low Marx
By Steven Lukes
Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution
by Leszek Kolakowski, translated by P.S. Falla
Oxford University Press, Volume III: The Breakdown, 548 pp., $19.95
In Poland during the early 1950s Leszek Kolakowski took part with the other Marxist philosophers in battles 'combating the non-Marxist tradition,' as he puts it in Main Currents of Marxism. He does not, he now dryly remarks, 'regard the fact as a source of pride.' In 1952 he had written that
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