‘Marxism and the Status of Philosophy’ by Georges Labica reviewed by Lea Kuhar (opens in new tab)

In 1976, when Georges Labica published his book Le Statut marxiste de la philosophie, which was translated into English four years later as Marxism and the Status of Philosophy, Western Marxism was in crisis. The three largest communist parties in Western Europe, that is, the Italian Communist Party, the French Communist Party, and the Communist Party of Spain, had distanced themselves from Soviet Marxism to embrace a parliamentary path to socialism. Several important works emerged that same ...