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

• Autore: Blackledge Paul
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 335.4119; 901
• Soggetto topico: Historical materialism
• Soggetto non controllato: Engels' 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Reflections on the Marxist theory of history
• ISBN: 1-84779-134-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786205603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Issues in Historiography