ABSTRACT
What can we learn from the experience and what is left of the great countertradition to liberalism after this political collapse? This is a question which has vast repercussions, for it is not just in the societies where it officially took power that Marxist and Leninist doctrine had real effects, but also in the West. The growth of the Liberal West has owed a huge amount to a continual debate and learning process with the critical tradition of Marxism. What, if anything, is to replace this tradition?
