

From Marxism to difference
pp. 17-34
in: Catherine Belsey (ed), Privileging difference, Berlin, Springer, 2002Abstract
When I went to university a few years after the invasion of Hungary, I came across only three Marxists, all members of the Communist Party, all prepared to justify the Soviet action. Who would have guessed then that a generation of Western intellectuals were once again about to embrace Marxism?