"A very elegant restatement of the undogmatic essence of Marx." -New Statesman
Perry Anderson taught History at UCLA for thirty years and is an Editor at New Left Review. Recent books include Brazil Apart, The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci and The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony.
Anderson evaluates the entire corpus of Thompson's work as a
historian and as a socialist ... The result is a fascinating
assessment of the man Anderson claims to be 'our finest socialist
writer today.' ... In so doing Anderson provides a superb essay in
historiography as well as an important chapter of the history of
the left in England.
*Time Out*
An excellent book-exemplary in its tone, coverage, consistency and,
an important point this, in its accessibility.
*Sociological Review*
[Anderson] is an exceptionally determined, diligent, careful and
intellectually capable thinker.
*New Society*
His argument ... takes on an exceptional fluency and subtlety,
touching many of the key points of socialist morality, socialist
history and the socialist future. Its core is a very elegant
restatement of the undogmatic essence of Marx.
*New Statesman*
Despite the immense erudition it reads lightly and restores the
most diverse theoretical debates to the concrete realities of
socialist strategic thinking about contemporary issues.
*Chartist*
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