The End of Ideology by the American sociologist Daniel Bell dates from 1960, but it was only during the 1980s that this leitmotif reached France and found expression in all areas of social existence
When these intellectuals are members of the organizations in question and, a fortiori, when they are leaders of them, the constraints of political activity are clearly visible in their publications
Marxists now produced hermetic knowledge, inaccessible to ordinary workers, about fields without any direct relationship to political strategy
The apogee of the New Left occurred from around 1968 until about 1977 (the Italian autonomist movement)
Critical theories are theories that more or less comprehensively challenge the existing social order. The criticisms they formulate do not concern particular aspects of this order, like the imposition of a tax on financial transactions (the ‘Tobin tax’) or some measure relating to pension reform
