Abstract
World War I put an end to innocent speculation and presented de Man with the trauma which he was to struggle to master the rest of his life. It compelled him to attempt a reconciliation between the ideology which he had so passionately embraced and the new, frightful, and anomalous reality that confronted him. The experiences that he now underwent gave rise to unresolved tensions, and led to his major lifework, the attempt to develop a new and more adequate ideology and program by which the socialist movement would be able to escape the debilitating and appalling death-agonies of a world in decadence.
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© 1966 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Dodge, P. (1966). Participant. In: Beyond Marxism: The Faith and Works of Hendrik de Man. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0476-8_3
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