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Circle of intellectuals based in post-war France aligned with Marxist humanism

The Arguments group was a collection of French intellectuals, mostly ex-Communists, who were active in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The group, whose members had been shaped by their participation in the French Resistance and subsequent disillusionment with the French Communist Party, particularly after the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, sought to revitalize Marxism by engaging with new intellectual currents and social phenomena. Many of the group's members held academic positions in Paris, and their work had a significant influence on the development of the New Left. Wikipedia →

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  2. Skim a recent paper: Zero-Knowledge Arguments for Lattice-Based Accumulators: Logarithmic-Size Ring Signatures and Group Signatures Without TrapdoorsInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Unpopular EssaysThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Effects of partially shared persuasive arguments on group-induced shifts: A group-problem-solving approach.Cited 176 times
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