>he wrote it about the Marxists of his day (mid-20-th century France) -- people who were justifying Stalinism crimes and so on. This isn't a very nuanced view

>he wrote it about the Marxists of his day (mid-20-th century France) -- people who were justifying Stalinism crimes and so on. This isn't a very nuanced view of even those Marxists, who were not justifying Stalin at all - in fact, the matters of May '68 were almost entirely inspired by a new kind of Marxism, much further from Stalinism. It was an expression of dissatisfaction. It's extremely curious to me that the author doesn't once bring up the Frankfurt School, a group of German intellectuals writing since the 1930s on the failure of both Western capitalism and Soviet-style communism. Rather, Marxists (all of them) are painted with a broad Stalinist brush, which is very ignorant of the movements even during the time the author of the book was alive. Unfortunately the 2005 article has done very little research into the Marxist movements past and present of that year.