Marxism and history

Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
	The Basics
	Three Generations of Marxist History
	Conclusion
2 Marxist History’s Wide Panorama
	Old and New History
	The Long and Short of It
	Revolutions
	Concepts and Theory
	Distorting Marxism
	Stalinism and Marxist History
	Conclusion
3 Marx and Engels’s Conception of History
	History and the Enlightenment
	Can Human History Be Scientific?
	The Distinctiveness of Human Labour
	The Forces of Production
	Social Relations of Production
	The Clash Between the Forces and the Relations of Production
	Base and Superstructure
	The Role of the Individual in History
	Class and History
	Conclusion
4 The Historical Writings of Marx and Engels
	Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
	Engels’s Peasant War in Germany
	Capital, Volume I
	Engels’s Letters on Historical Materialism
	Conclusion
5 The Second Generation and the Philosophy and Writing of History
	Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution
	Antonio Gramsci’s Contribution: Hegemony, Folklore and Anthropology
	Gramsci on Hegemony and Popular Consciousness
	Lukacs’s History and Class Consciousness
	Reification and Bourgeois History
	The Possibilities of Marxist History
	Conclusion
6 Rescuing the Poor Stockinger: History from Below
	Communist Party Historians’ Group (1946–56)
	Christopher Hill
	England’s Bourgeois Revolution
	‘The Revolt Within the Revolution’
	E.P. Thompson
	Eighteenth-Century English Culture
	Thompson’s Wider Impact
	Conclusion
7 Marxism, Structuralism, and Humanism
	Structuralism and Marxist History
	Thompson’s Critique of Structuralism
	Evaluations I: Base and Superstructure
	Evaluations II: Science
	Evaluations III: Class
	Conclusion
8 Marxism and Postmodernism in History
	What Is Postmodernism?
	The Postmodernist Gauntlet
	Postmodern Method
	Postmodern Knowledge
	Writing Postmodern History
	The Marxist Critique of Idealism: Theories of Language and Knowledge
	Language
	Knowledge
	Marxist History and Postmodernism
	Totalities, Opposites, and Praxis
9 Conclusion
Endnotes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Further Reading
Glossary
Index