title: Rethinking the French Revolution: Marxism and the Revisionist Challenge
author:  George C. Comninel 
description: &ldquo;Scholarly and enjoyable ... If you have any kind of mind, you will get sustained and exacting pleasure from the book.&rdquo;&#8212;Gwyn Williams, <i>New Statesman</i><br><br>&ldquo;Very refreshing ... Comninel&rsquo;s book does offer new angles of vision to the student of the Revolution.&rdquo;&#8212;<i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br><br>&ldquo;Excellent ... Comninel&rsquo;s explanation of Marx&rsquo;s historical materialism is bold and convincing.&rdquo;&#8212;<i>Village Voice</i>
  						    	
  						        	--This text refers to the <a href='/dp/0860918904/ref=dp_bookdescription?_encoding=UTF8&amp;n=283155'>Paperback</a> edition.
zlib_text: Marx for Our Time*
  V
  
  Marx for Our Times
  Adventures and Misadventures 
  of a Critique
   
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  DANIEL BENSAID 
  Translated by Gregory Elliott
  V
  V E R S O  
  London • New York
  
  This book is supported by the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs as part of the 
  Burgess Programme, headed for the French Embassy in London by the Institut 
  Franfais du Royaume Uni.
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  Translation ©  Gregory Elliott 2002 
  First published as Al^rx I'intempestif 
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