Some face posthumous justice too: Lefebvre, Marxism and a debt to Nietzsche

Through his work on cities and the urban, as well importance of everyday life, Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) has enjoyed a posthumously renaissance, is now one most influential French Marxists. But was he one? He always claimed to be. Yet took from Nietzsche crucial lifelong components personal theoretical framework: personality, alienation, ethics, even language. Commentators oscillate between accepting claim having successfully placed Marx in separate silos hand asserting that had done what equally insisted not – build own system. Marxists themselves may be satisfied with either formulation, if risk they run separating Nietzschean heritage extract theory urban dead arrival, or at least requiring resuscitation by Marxist means.