Althusser keyword-ruth-gilmore Michael Freeden

Michael Freeden

Two collections from the period

But perhaps one has to spill such (ideological) blood to give the Left a chance

not one hobbled by developers and landlords

and Brazil—De Sousa Santos and his colleaguesshow how

Althusser keyword-ruth-gilmore Michael FreedenIn the international renaissance of Marxist theory during the 1960s and early 1970s few projects generated as much excitement or controversy as Louis Althusser's 'return to Marx'. One of the most ambitious enterprises in the post war history of Marxism, Althusser's reconstruction of Marx's doctrine was heralded as a new start in some quarters, dismissed as a refurbished Stalinism in others. Today, more than twenty years after the appearance of his