"Even before 1968, in the 1950s, a new left emerged. Young academic intellectuals began to look beyond the polarized traditional labor movement for new starting points for left-wing thinking. Newly founded theory journals became their organizational core. In theory, the New Left…
"Even before 1968, in the 1950s, a new left emerged. Young academic intellectuals began to look beyond the polarized traditional labor movement for new starting points for left-wing thinking. Newly founded theory journals became their organizational core. In theory, the New Left…
This work examines the emergence and subsequent demise of intellectual identification with the French Communist Party, arguing that after 1978, political conflicts between the Communist leadership and party intellectuals led to an erosion of support.