Last Exit to Utopia

<br>Here is a tasty paradox: How did the Leftist legions regroup after history delivered its fatal blow to the Soviet system? Simple, argues Jean-Francois Revel: the Left retreated to the impregnable fortress of the Utopian ideal. After all, socialism incarnate was always vulnerable to criticism. Utopia, on the other hand, lies by definition beyond reproach. With the demise of the Soviet system, there is no longer a vast and flailing embodiment of their vision, and Utopia's haughty champions can again rage boundlessly. <br>In Last Exit to Utopia, the latest English language translation of one of Europe's most controversial intellectuals, Jean-Francois Revel takes aim at socialist apologists who have attempted to erase or invert the manifest failures of socialist ideology. As the tide of Big Government rises in America, Revel's forewarnings here are as prescient as they are frightening.

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<br>"[T]he book, at last available in English in this fine translation, ought to command close attention because it was written by Jean-Francois Revel, who--unlike such bien-pensant idols as Jean-Paul Sartre (an admirer of Stalin) and Michel Foucault (a cheerleader of the Ayatollah Khomeini)--deserves to be ranked as the pre-eminent French political philosopher of the second half of the 20th century. What's more, the book's themes continue to resonate today, when murderous ideologies still compete for legitimacy and "enlightened" understanding by the Western intelligentsia." <br>&mdash The Wall Street Journal <p>"Jean-Francois Revel was among the most distinguished intellectual dissenters of the last half-century. He was uniquely capable of disentangling the strands of misguided modernism, greed for power, and simple mendacity that led to the political collapse of the radical left. This book, his examination of the global attempt by survivors of the devastated edifice to per

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