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Main Currents of Marxism by Leszek Kolakowski. Norton, 1,284 pp., $49.95. For Hegel, philosophy was necessarily contemplative. The owl of Minerva took flight only at dusk; thought could illuminate the past, not directly address the present or shape the future. As a young man, Marx famously declared that while philosophy only interpreted the world, the purpose of socialism was to change it. Kolakowski, concluding this massive study, argues, "At present Marxism neither interprets the world nor changes it: it is merely a repertoire of slogans serving to organize various interests, most of them completely remote from those with which Marxism originally...
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