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Marx through the Eyes of an East European Intellectual
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 76, Number 3, Fall 2009
- pp. 965-986
- 10.1353/sor.2009.0056
- Article
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I am afraid all that can be said of Karl Marx has already been written. What I can add to this great body of literature is the specific vantage point from which I view Marx's work. What I shall convey is not some collective statement of the East European intelligentsia, but my individual story. But I should add that my own story is typical in many respects. Many phases of my life, if not the whole of it, could stand for similar phases in the lives of others. I hope this will apply when I relate what my ideas in relation to Marx were at various stages in my individual life (and of history, by which my life was deeply affected.