Kakania und Kultur  

Wittgenstein’s Vienna, by Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin. New York: Simon & Schuster, Touchstone Books. 314 pp. “A place where one would like to spend one’s life, or at least a place where it would be smart to stay, even …



Pioneers of the Left  

THE ORIGINS OF SOCIALISM, by George Lichtheim. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. 302 pp. $6.95 (paper $2.95). One of the most intelligent and prolific among contemporary historians of socialism, George Lichtheim displays in almost all of his work two sides: …





Marxism: An End to Revolution  

In the late nineteenth century, Marxism was superimposed on an already formidable revolutionary movement in France. Marxism claimed the faith of proletarians and revolutionary intellectuals alike, as the union of theory and practice which the movement required but would not …