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http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1161398273.shtml

It begins:

	If Habermas perceived Kolakowski’s activities of
	the early 1970s as a reason to see a coming
	catastrophe, the publication of Kolakowski’s Main
	Currents of Marxism in 1976 must have presented
	itself as a vision of doomsday. Main Currents of
	Marxism is an intellectual “death certificate”
	of Marxist thought written thirteen years before
	the actual burial of communism in 1989. In this
	elegantly written work, Kolakowski traces the roots
	of Marxism to the tradition of European dialectics
	that goes back to Neoplatonism. He describes
	Marxism as twentieth-century man’s greatest
	fantasy: It promised utopia—a classless society
	without greed. What it...