A Debate

"Sartre's emphasis on the humanist values in Marx and the emphasis on the early Marx this gave rise to, led to a famous dispute with the leading Communist intellectual in France in the 1960s, Louis Althusser, in which Althusser attempted to redefine Marx's work into an early pre-Marxist period, with essentialist generalizations about Mankind, and a mature, scientific, authentically Marxist period (starting between the Grundrisse and Das Kapital). Some say this was the only public debate Sartre ever lost."

A debate worth following, unlike the crappy he-said-she-said "debate" between Dems and Repubs portrayed in the NYT and others. Another plug for http://www.dailyhowler.com is apt. The "large staff" at the Daily Howler shows how laughable our discourse really is.