Douglas Johnson (1)
Terry Lovell (2)
Jack Lindsay (1)
Maurice Cornforth (1)
R.S. Neale (1)
Simon Clarke (1)
Paul Foot, 3 July 1997
"... United is at least in part financed by the payment he was made by the Church Commissioners. Terry Lovell conservatively estimates the total loss on these speculations at £400m. Who was responsible? The First Estates Commissioner from 1983 was a former head of Customs and Excise with the gloriously Dickensian name of Sir Douglas Lovelock. The ..."
Althusser's Fate
Douglas Johnson, 16 April 1981
The Long March of the French Left
by R.W. Johnson.
Macmillan, 345 pp., £20, March 1981, 0 333 27417 2Show More
One-Dimensional Marxism
by Simon Clarke and Terry Lovell.
Allison and Busby, 256 pp., £9.95, June 1980, 0 85031 367 8Show More
Communism and Philosophy
by Maurice Cornforth.
Lawrence and Wishart, 282 pp., £8.95, July 1980, 0 85315 430 9Show More
The Crisis of Marxism
by Jack Lindsay.
Moonraker, 183 pp., £7.95, March 1981, 0 239 00200 8Show More
Class in English History 1680-850
by R.S. Neale.
Blackwell, 250 pp., £12, January 1981, 0 631 12851 4Show More
"... Is it easy to be a Marxist?' Louis Althusser put this question to a crowded audience at the University of Picardy in 1975. Is it possible to be an Althusserian? The question has to be asked now. Althusserian Marxism has always been under threat, but since the tragic events of last November we are obliged to wonder whether the ruin of Althusser's own life and career, as he faces a future necessarily bounded by the mental hospital, will also encompass the definitive destruction of his philosophical work ..."