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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existential Marxism Shows How We Can Make Our Own History
Jean-Paul Sartre was the world’s most renowned philosopher when he set out to renew Marxist theory in the 1950s. The result was a brilliant analysis of how human beings can overcome the weight of social structures to change the world for the better.