Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History
Paul Blackledge
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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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719069574
SKU
V9780719069574
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About Paul Blackledge
Paul Blackledge is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Leeds Metropolitan University
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