Karl Marx's Theory of History
Karl Marx's Theory of History

Author: Gerald A. Cohen

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 0691213003

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First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as a flagship of a powerful intellectual movement--analytical Marxism. In this expanded edition, Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the further promise, of analytical Marxism. He also expresses reservations about traditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs the theory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demise of the Soviet Union.

Marxism and History
Marxism and History

Author: Matt Perry

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-16

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 3030695115

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This textbook examines Marxism’s enormous impact on the way historians approach their subject. Tackling current historiographical questions in an accessible way, the author offers a clear introduction to Marxist views of history, key Marxist historians and thinkers, and the relevance of Marxist theory and history to students’ own work. This is a concise, thorough overview of an important area of historiography. The second edition incorporates significant new developments in research, including Marxist contributions to the emergence of global, maritime and transnational history; the discovery of Marx’s ecologism and the historical critique of fossil capitalism as a source of environmental disaster; a reassessment of gender oppression through social reproduction theory; and the contribution of Marxism to debates on race, Eurocentrism and whiteness.

Marxism and History
Marxism and History

Author: Matt Perry

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2002-04-20

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9780333922446

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The first of the new Theory and History series, Matt Perry's punchy andaccessible volume examines Marxism's enormous impact on the way historians approach their subject. Perry offers both a concise introduction to the Marxist view of history and Marxism historical writing, and a guide to its relevance to students' own work.

Marxism and History
Marxism and History

Author: S. H. Rigby

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780719056123

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Marx's theory of history is often regarded as the most enduring and fruitful aspect of his intellectual legacy. His "historical materialism" has been the inspiration for some of the best historical writing in the works of scholars such as Eric Hobsbawm, E.P.Thompson, Rodney Hilton and Robert Brenner. S.H. Rigby establishes Marx's claims about social structure and historical change, discusses their use in his own and his followers' writings, and assesses the validity of his theories. He argues that Marx's social theories were profoundly contradictory and that Marxism has proved most useful when it is seen as a source of questions, concepts and hypotheses rather than as a philosophy of historical development.

Manifesto
Manifesto

Author: Ernesto Che Guevara

Publisher: Ocean Press

Published: 2015-04-10

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0987228331

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“If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good intellectual reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wishing to act with others, to ‘do something,’ you already have much in common with the writers of the three essays in this book.” — Adrienne Rich With a preface by Adrienne Rich, Manifesto presents the radical vision of four famous young rebels: Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto, Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution and Che Guevara’s Socialism and Humanity.

Marxist History-writing for the Twenty-first Century
Marxist History-writing for the Twenty-first Century

Author: Chris Wickham

Publisher: British Academy

Published: 2007-06-28

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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Eight prominent historians and social scientists give their perspectives on the fate of Marxist approaches to history and the direction of the discipline in coming decades. The volume offers rigorous and approachable analysis from several political and intellectual positions and will be an important contribution to current historical debates.

Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain
Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain

Author: Dennis L. Dworkin

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780822319146

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A history of British cultural Marxism. This book traces its development from beginnings in postwar Britain, through transformations in the 1960s and 1970s, to the emergence of British cultural studies at Birmingham, up to the advent of Thatcherism, to reflect a tradition, that represents an effort to resolve the crisis of the postwar British Left.

A Marxist History of Capitalism
A Marxist History of Capitalism

Author: Henry Heller

Publisher:

Published: 2018-07-30

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781138495876

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Henry Heller's short account of the history of capitalism combines Marx's economic and political thought with contemporary scholarship to shed light on the current capitalist crisis. It argues that capitalism is an evolving mode of production that has now outgrown its institutional and political limits. The book provides an overview of the different historical stages of capitalism, underpinned by accessible discussions of its theoretical foundations. Heller shows that capitalism has always been a double-edged sword, on one hand advancing humanity, and on the other harming traditional societies and our natural environment. He makes the case that capitalism has now become self-destructive, and that our current era of neoliberalism may trigger a transition to a democratic and ecologically aware form of socialism.