Daniel Bensaïd (born 1946 in Toulouse) is philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the Université de Nanterre. 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Capitole, the 18th century city hall of Toulouse and best known landmark in the city; in the foreground is the Place du Capitole, a hub of urban life at the very center of the city Toulouse (pronounced in standard French, in local Toulouse accent) ( Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced ) is a... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

Bensaïd is now a leading theorist of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire and the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. He is known for writing studies of Walter Benjamin and Karl Marx, and a recent analysis of French postmodernism. The United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) is a Trotskyist international organisation. ... Benjamin, in 1938. ... Karl Marx Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was an influential German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary organizer of the International Workingmens Association. ... Postmodernism is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, design, architecture, art, literature, religion, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ...