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By no means all the work that has gone on on the French Left in recent years can be described, or would describe itself, as ‘Marxist’. Thinkers such as Barthes or Lacan have been thus labelled in print, on evidence seemingly no more substantial than the former’s denunciation of the Mythologies of bourgeois consumerism, and the latter’s influence on and affinities with the May movements and the ideas of Althusser. There are those, like Foucault or Deleuze, who have explicitly rejected the application of the term to their work while still clearly committed to the Left, and those, of whom Derrida is the best-known example, who would lay claim to Marxist sympathies not unequivocally apparent in what they write. And the numerous ‘alternative politics’ that sprang out of May have often defined themselves precisely in opposition to the monolithic centralism characteristic of much French Marxist thought.
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J.-P. Sartre, Situations X (Gallimard, Paris, 1976) p. 97.
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Reader, K.A. (1987). Intellectuals and Marxism Since 1968 — Sartre. In: Intellectuals and the Left in France Since 1968. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18581-8_3
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