Chaz, try reading this from, "Existential Marxism in Post-War France, " by Mark Poster, Princeton Univ. Press. Michael Pugliese
chapter2 ... in its dualism and the materialism own way, diamat reflected. ... France by Lucien Goldmann, most notably in Kant and Recherches dialectiques (1959), and placed at ... http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/EM/chapter2.html