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E.P. Thompson and the making of the new left : essays and polemics / edited by Cal Winslow.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Monthly Review Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781583674567
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HX244 .E684 2014
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Contents:
Socialist Humanism -- Socialism and the Intellectuals -- Commitment in Politics -- The New Left -- At the Point of Decay -- Revolution -- Revolution Again! or Shut Your Ears and Run -- The Long Revolution -- Where Are We Now? -- The Communism of William Morris -- Homage to Tom Maguire -- The Free-born Englishman.
Subject: "E. P. Thompson is a towering figure in the field of labor history, best known for his monumental and path-breaking work, The Making of the English Working Class. But as this collection shows, Thompson was much more than a historian: he was a dedicated educator of workers, a brilliant polemicist, a skilled political theorist, and a tireless agitator for peace, against nuclear weapons, and for a rebirth of the socialist project. The essays in this book, many of which are either out-of-print or difficult to obtain, were written between 1955 and 1963 during one of the most fertile periods of Thompson's intellectual and political life, when he wrote his two great works, The Making of the English Working Class and William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary. They reveal Thompson's insistence on the vitality of a humanistic and democratic socialism along with the value of utopian thinking in radical politics. Throughout, Thompson struggles to open a space independent of official Communist Parties and reformist Social Democratic Parties, opposing them with a vision of socialism built from the bottom up. Editor Cal Winslow, who studied with Thompson, provides context for the essays in a detailed introduction and reminds us why this eloquent and inspiring voice remains so relevant to us today. "--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Through the Smoke of Budapest -- Socialist Humanism -- Socialism and the Intellectuals -- Commitment in Politics -- The New Left -- At the Point of Decay -- Revolution -- Revolution Again! or Shut Your Ears and Run -- The Long Revolution -- Where Are We Now? -- The Communism of William Morris -- Homage to Tom Maguire -- The Free-born Englishman.

"E. P. Thompson is a towering figure in the field of labor history, best known for his monumental and path-breaking work, The Making of the English Working Class. But as this collection shows, Thompson was much more than a historian: he was a dedicated educator of workers, a brilliant polemicist, a skilled political theorist, and a tireless agitator for peace, against nuclear weapons, and for a rebirth of the socialist project. The essays in this book, many of which are either out-of-print or difficult to obtain, were written between 1955 and 1963 during one of the most fertile periods of Thompson's intellectual and political life, when he wrote his two great works, The Making of the English Working Class and William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary. They reveal Thompson's insistence on the vitality of a humanistic and democratic socialism along with the value of utopian thinking in radical politics. Throughout, Thompson struggles to open a space independent of official Communist Parties and reformist Social Democratic Parties, opposing them with a vision of socialism built from the bottom up. Editor Cal Winslow, who studied with Thompson, provides context for the essays in a detailed introduction and reminds us why this eloquent and inspiring voice remains so relevant to us today. "--

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