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André Glucksmann was one of the greatest French philosophers of France in the second half of the 20th century. A representative of the "new philosophers" who shaped public opinion in France after the events of 1968, Glucksman initially sympathized with the communist movement, but became disillusioned with it and became one of the harshest critics of the Soviet Union. In 1975, the author published his most famous work, The Cook and the Cannibal, Discourses on the State, Marxism and Concentration Camps, where he drew a parallel between Nazism and Communism, arguing that Marxism necessarily leads to totalitarianism. The author considers violence a logical consequence of Marxist theory, an integral part of the project of a communist society.