ABSTRACT
KOLAKOWSKI: As you know, the turn toward Marxism was always a double turn. Strictly intellectual and political reasons, that is, could actually not be distinguished and the one could be separated from the other only artificially. It is true: Marxism attracted me-like so many people-through its having appeared to offer a rational yet unsentimental vision of history in which all was explained. Everything-only seemingly, of course-appeared understandable; not only was the past explained, but the future became transparent as well.
