Marxist History

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	"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past"

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	"A masterpiece and beautifully written. The dialectical analysis of class struggle is seemlessly interwoven into the text."

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	"Classic account of how a slave revolt in the West Indies and a revolution in France fed each other."

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	"Great analysis. Contains a brilliant theoretical essay on Marxist method."

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	"Great analysis of systems of slavery borrowed and fed racist ideas and how slave economies fed British capitalism."

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	"Brilliant interweaving of the economic effects of the indstrial revolution in Britain and the political revolution in France."

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	"Monumental and utterly brilliant analysis of the relationship of social class and politics in a society first experiencing colonialism and capitalism."

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	"Great literature. Classic weaving of individual biography into social and political analysis. Possibly best Marxist overview of the Russian revolution as well."

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	"Useful discussion on the vitality of the Marxist approach."

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	"Great series of essays launching a counter attack against fashionable yet flawed right wing perspectives."

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	"Marxist counter to right wing revisionist orthodoxy on the French revolution."

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	"Mayer's incisive methodology applied to the Nazi Holocaust."

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	"Great grasp of dialectics sees Traverso locate Nazi ideas being radicalisations of the western liberal mainstream"

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	"Islamophobic nonesense gets the dialectical materialist treatment."

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	"Classic history from below. Murphy gets to grips with the history of a factory and the workers who work there over a 30 year period."

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	"Too liberal for Marxists. Too Marxist for liberals. Nevertheless, a classic that owes much to the Marxist tradition."

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	"Classic account of the Russian revolution and civil war from 'the conscience of the revolution.'"

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	"Brilliant and thought provoking analysis of the collision of el nino weather systems and capitalism and the millions of deaths that ensued."

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	"Materialist account explaining the rise of Islam and biography of Muhammad."

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	"The great Maxime Rodinson tackles a variety of issues connected to Jewish history and Zionism."

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	"Beutifully written account of the causes, course and consequences of the French Revolution. The dialectical interactions of the economic, social, political and military are seamlessly interwoven."

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	"Revolutions are made by people and their actions. Rude looks beyond the leaders to the masses to understand the French Revolution."

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	"In depth look at the peasantry of Syria and how this social class has spawned religious and political movements, particularly the B'ath."

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	"Fascinating account of how social and political revolt can be expressed in messianic religious form."

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	"Useful historiographical essay setting out the classic Marxist interpretation."