ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the career and intellectual development of the Slovak Marxist, philosopher, theorist of Marxist determinism, and social scientist Rudolf Šíma. It analyzes defining elements of continuity in his thought from the outset of his philosophical career in the late 1950s, during the wake of the post-Stalinist period, to the era of so-called late socialism in the 1980s. The study aims to highlight the heterogeneous, yet holistic character of Šíma’s thought within the context of the development of Czechoslovak Marxist philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century, and to point out the Šíma´s unorthodox approach to Leninism.
