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Marx and Marchais totter in France. (Karl Marx; Georges Marchais)

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From: The New Leader
Date: 19920113
Author:Valls-Russell, Janice

IN THE mid-1970s, many French teachers and their students saw Karl Marx as the man of the future. In my small-town lycee, the contents of some programs varied with the teachers' political preferences, so while one class studied Japan and the United States, ours discovered the wonders of collective farming and five-year plans in China and the USSR. My philosophy teacher preferred Mao's Little Red Book to Plato's Republic.

University was more of the same, with Marxist-dominated student unions whose leaders believed ballot boxes were there to be smashed. The faculty argued out ...

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