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Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism is a 2005 book by William S. Lewis. Lewis examines the "Structural Marxism" of Louis Althusser, which was popular in the 1960s and 1970s. His approach places Althusser's thought within the context of the history of the French Communist Party and the history of French intellectual Marxism. The role and place of political theory is a central concern of Lewis' interpretation of Althusser. Lewis argues that the Stalinist and humanist interpretations of Marx were not only theoretically untenable, but had harmful practical consequences for the French Communist Party.[1][2]