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Publishing Has a Role to Play in the Rebuilding of a Marxist Culture in France

Interview with Marina Simonin, who in 2018 with Clara Laspalas and Alexis Cukier, took over the management of French Marxist publisher Éditions Sociales. In it she discusses the history of the publisher and the role of publishing within the French left.

In 2018, Marina Simonin, together with Clara Laspalas and Alexis Cukier, took over the management of Éditions Sociales from Richard Lagache. This generational renewal marked the beginning of a new chapter in the history of this almost century-old publishing house. The current situation, characterised by a weakening of anti-Marxism and the growing demand for theoretical reference points on the part of young people who are politicised but orphaned from their political past, opens up fruitful perspectives for Éditions Sociales. To transmit, educate and promote debate: these are the missions that Marina Simonin set out for her work at Éditions Sociales. This optimism, both intellectual and organisational, is illustrated by the relaunch of an ambitious project to translate the complete texts of Marx and Engels into French and the development of selections of these for a general readership. In contrast to the dynamics of the previous century, when party Marxism conditioned the reception of scientific Marxism, the coming years could well trace the opposite path. Marx and Marxisms have everything to gain: rather than obsolete and demobilising fetishes, they are now critical and transformative weapons that need to be reclaimed.

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