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Daniel Bensaïd
French philosopher
1946 – 2010aged 63
Daniel Bensaïd emerged from the 1968 student uprising at the University of Paris X-Nanterre to become one of France's leading Trotskyist intellectuals, spending decades developing a philosophy of revolutionary politics grounded in careful theoretical argument rather than slogans. He remained a public philosopher and organizer of the French far left for the rest of his life.