E.P. Thompson and the making of the new left : essays & polemics

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E.P. Thompson and the making of the new left : essays & polemics

edited by Cal Winslow

Monthly Review Press, c2014

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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E.P. Thompson and the making of the new left : essays and polemics

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Volume

: cloth ISBN 9781583674444

Description

E. P. Thompson is a towering fi gure in the fi eld 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 diffi cult 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 offi cial 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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: pbk ISBN 9781909831070

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The essays in this book, many of which are either out-of-print or difficult to obtain, were written between 1955 and 1963, one of the most fertile periods of Thompson's intellectual and political life. They reveal Thompson's insistence on the vitality of a humanistic and democratic socialism along with his view of the value of utopian thinking in radical politics. Throughout, Thompson struggles to open a space independent of official parties, opposing them with a vision of socialism built from the bottom up. Editor Cal Winslow provides context for the essays in a detailed introduction reminding us why this eloquent and inspiring voice remains so relevant to us today.

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction, Cal Winslow 'Through the Smoke of Budapest', Reasoner 1956 'Socialist Humanism', New Reasoner 1957 'Socialism & the Intellectuals', ULR 1957 'Commitment in Politics', ULR 1959 'The New Left', New Reasoner 1959 'At the Point of Decay', Out of Apathy 1960 'Revolution', Out of Apathy 1960 'Revolution Again', NLR 1960 'The Long Revolution' I & II, NLR 1961 'Where are We Now?' unpublished 1963 'The Communism of William Morris', Lecture 1959 'Homage to Tom Maguire', Essays in Labour History 1960 'The Freeborn Englishman', NLR 1962

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