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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786205603321

Autore

Blackledge Paul

Titolo

Reflections on the Marxist theory of history [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Blackledge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-84779-134-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Issues in Historiography MUP

Disciplina

335.4119

901

Soggetti

Historical materialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719069567; 9780719069567; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Marxism and history; 2 Marx, Engels and historical materialism; 3 Historical materialism: from the Second to the Third International; 4 Modes of production and social transitions; 5 Structure, agency and the struggle for freedom; 6 The present as history: Marxism and post-modernity; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A decade after Francis Fukuyama announced the 'End of History', anti-capitalist demonstrators at Seattle and elsewhere have helped reinvigorate the Left with the reply 'another world is possible'. More than anyone else it was Marx who showed that slogans such as this were no utopian fantasies, and that capitalism was just as much a historical mode of production, no more natural and certainly no less contradictory, than were the feudal and slave modes which proceeded it. Paul Blackledge opens this study with a defence of the Marxist approach to the study of history against what he argues as bei