LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI
November 2009
‘We need to confront the forces of chaos wherever and in whatever form they appear’
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November 2009
I was saddened to hear of the death of the great Polish thinker Leszek Kolakowski whose demolition of Marxism helped clear the way for the Solidarity movement. In Britain, or to be more precise among the small band of British leftish intellectual
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November 2008
Roger Kimball finds it strange that the author of the most pertinent works on Marxism is so little known
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Leszek Kolakowski
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