Reflections on the Marxist theory of history / Paul Blackledge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackledge, Paul.

Series:

Issues in Historiography

Issues in Historiography MUP

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical materialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-84779-134-4

OCLC:

818847208