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In <strong><em>Mysteries of a Communist Cave<\/em><\/strong>, the second book in the <em>Gumshoe<\/em> series, Lytle Shaw conducts an investigation of Oscar Niemeyer&rsquo;s building for the French Communist Party&rsquo;s (PCF) central committee in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Designed in 1965, just as party theorists began to rethink many bedrock assumptions about representation, Oscar Niemeyer&rsquo;s PCF building is a microcosm of the shifting political and architectural landscape of the 1960s. It is also a literal Marxist structure that can thus help us concretely picture just exactly what Structuralist Marxism might have been. 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