Western Marxism
The phrase "Western Marxism" was first used disparagingly by the Third International in 1923. Maurice Merleau-Ponty popularized the term with his book "Adventures of the Dialectic" in 1955. Merleau-Ponty delineated a body of Marxist thought starting with György Lukács that differs from both the Soviet interpretation of Marxism and the earlier Marxism of the Second International.