03198nam 2200769 a 450 991078620560332120200520144314.01-84779-134-410.7765/9781847791344(CKB)2670000000276691(EBL)1069515(OCoLC)818847208(SSID)ssj0000799970(PQKBManifestationID)12343579(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000799970(PQKBWorkID)10765580(PQKB)11304304(OCoLC)957515063(MdBmJHUP)muse77756(Au-PeEL)EBL1069515(CaPaEBR)ebr10623293(CaONFJC)MIL843765(MiAaPQ)EBC1069515(DE-B1597)659665(DE-B1597)9781847791344(EXLCZ)99267000000027669120121129d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReflections on the Marxist theory of history[electronic resource] /Paul BlackledgeManchester Manchester University Press20061 online resource (233 p.)Issues in Historiography MUPIncludes index.0-7190-6957-2 0-7190-6956-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexA 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 beiIssues in HistoriographyHistorical materialismEngels' theory of history.Marxism.Marxist historiography.Marxist theory of history.Stalinism.anti-capitalist movement.anti-war movement.capitalism.mode of production.post-modern world.post-modernist approaches.relations of production.Historical materialism.335.4119901Blackledge Paul503983MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786205603321Reflections on the Marxist theory of history3780142UNINA