Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:17 No. 1352
CHAD eric Hosbawn.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:20 No. 1372
>>1350 I only really have an art history background so Andrew Hemingway and Dave Beech come to mind.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:30 No. 1449
anything wrong with Howard Zinn?
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:42 No. 1587
>>1350 Main Currents of Marxism - Vol 1-3 by Leszek Kolakowski. These are all you need. It was written as a critique of marxism but exists to perfectly summarize it and offers a complete contextualization. An in depth explanation of the history of philosophy leading up to marx, marx and engels and their writings, and post marx thought; as well as offering a very complete view of marxism and its practical implementation and development throughout europe and asia.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:43 No. 1591
it would be embarrassing to be a marxist historian considering marx's pseudoscientific theory of history was proven wrong by history. things didn't play out at all like marx predicted.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:43 No. 1592
>>1591 How is Marx's theory of history wrong and pseudoscientific?
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:43 No. 1595
>>1593 >A huge number of Marx's predictions, big and small, have come true. To mention just a few that pop immediately to mind: that the tendency towards monopolies would continue, and intensify; that the boom-bust cycle of capitalism would continue, and that the capitalists would never be able to eliminate it (for reasons Marx explained in depth); that peasant-type (semi-feudal) agriculture would slowly give way to capitalist agriculture; that capitalism would more and more become an international system; that the class struggle would continue and grow; that the Union would prevail in the U.S. Civil War (because of the much more advanced capitalism of the Northern states); that the workers would not be able to hold on to power in the Paris Commune (the very first working class revolution, in 1871); that the working class could only hold onto power, after seizing it, by establishing its own proletarian dictatorship over the defeated bourgeoisie (a lesson Marx summed up after the Paris Commune, and proven correct by subsequent history); and, late in his life, that the first successful proletarian revolution might well take place in Russia. http://www.massline.org/Philosophy/ScottH/MLM_sci.htm That sounds pretty accurate to me, even though Marx didn't claim to be some sort of prophet.
Lenin's imperialism also predicted many things regarding capitalist development. Friedrich Engels even predicted WWI very accurately here:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/jun/29b.htm So I think you're just talking out of your ass
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:45 No. 1609
>>1595 >So I think you're just talking out of your ass no u. Historical materialism is bullshit. Deal with it. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:45 No. 1610
>>1609 >it’s predictions are wrong <actually predicted a lot of things concerning the economy
>muh broken clock this is your brain on neoclassicism
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:45 No. 1613
>>1595 > the first successful proletarian revolution might well take place in Russia When did Marx say this?
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:45 No. 1615
>>1613 Great question because according to his "historical materialism" it was supposed to happen in the industrialized west not the agrarian east.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:45 No. 1616
>>1615 He changed his views about Russia later in the life
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:46 No. 1617
>>1616 Is it fair to say that he rejected his own theory of historical materialism then?
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:47 No. 1627
>>1617 people reject their own theories all time
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:47 No. 1633
>>1617 That has nothing to do with historical materialism
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:54 No. 1706
>>1633 Isn't one of the main predictions of "historical materialism" that socialist revolution would happen in the industrialized west and not the agrarian east?
>>1627 True, but many marxists including many bolsheviks seemed to believe in historical materialism, so it's interesting that Marx himself rejected it.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:54 No. 1715
>>1706 >Isn't one of the main predictions of "historical materialism" that socialist revolution would happen in the industrialized west and not the agrarian east? That was a popular prediction within many Marxist parties, but it's a prediction *within* historical materialism, rather than *of* historical materialism, if that makes sense.
For instance, consider the hypothesis that large human brains evolved because they helped us build more effective tools, which helped us exploit more resources in our environment (or whatever.) This is a hypothesis framed within the conceptual world defined by evolution by natural selection, but evolution being true (if, if you prefer, being a useful set of tools) doesn't imply this over alternative hypotheses on its own.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:55 No. 1727
>>1715 Am I wrong that Marx himself made that prediction in his writings?
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:55 No. 1728
>>1727 >Am I wrong that Marx himself made that prediction in his writings? Yes, then he updated in later writings, and had he lived longer, he would have updated further as new information and new reflection forced him to continue to revise his thoughts.
It's a mistake to confuse historical materialism with the person of Marx, any more than one would equate chemistry with Boyle. Although he's the single most important theoretical touchstone of the tradition of analysis, historical materialism stretches back to James Harrington and on into the present day.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:56 No. 1733
>>1728 Can you recommend to me something about modern historical materialism? Ideally some sort of summary or primer?
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:57 No. 1750
>>1733 >Can you recommend to me something about modern historical materialism? Ideally some sort of summary or primer? This is a good question for which I have a less than satisfactory answer, because I'm not sure that there are great *purely theoretical* primers on historical materialism (though I'm probably just revealing my ignorance - others hopefully will be able to chime in to correct this). I think you'd actually be better off with just some contemporary applied works.
https://b-ok.cc/book/2853542/f37d6c https://b-ok.cc/book/899406/db0456 https://b-ok.cc/book/2641054/c620a7 https://b-ok.cc/book/686518/97e25e https://b-ok.cc/book/1248134/d11f24 https://b-ok.cc/book/2075341/831818 https://b-ok.cc/book/916406/032dcc https://b-ok.cc/book/885467/35a915 The closest thing I would think of as a theoretical introduction to historical materialism is
https://b-ok.cc/book/848583/b5df69 not because I endorse everything in there, but because it's the only work I can think of that's (1) written in a very clear style and (2) aims at being an utterly general account.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:01 No. 1789
hobsbawm really is the marxist historian gigachad. should be essential reading for anyone on the left
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:01 No. 1791
>>1352 >>1364 lol, Hobsbawn became a complete revisionist later on, and even helped pave the way for "New Labour" to emerge.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:02 No. 1795
>>1587 >He describes Marxism as "the greatest fantasy of the twentieth century", a dream of a perfect society which became a foundation for "a monstrous edifice of lies, exploitation and oppression." He argues that the Leninist and Stalinist versions of communist ideology are not a distortion or degenerate form of Marxism, but one of its possible interpretations. Sounds like hot garbage.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:02 No. 3482
any good books on Latin America? Either in English or Spanish
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:03 No. 3485
Not a list of recommendations, per se, but a very incomplete list of relevant books that you can find PDFs of: Perry Anderson - Lineages of the Absolutist State (1974) Perry Anderson - Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (1974) Perry Anderson - Considerations on Western Marxism (1976) Perry Anderson - Arguments Within English Marxism (1980) Perry Anderson - In the Tracks of Historical Materialism (1983) Perry Anderson - The New Old World (2009) Alexander Anievas - Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics (2014) Jairus Banaji - Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation (2010) G. A. Cohen - Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence (2000) Gregory Elliott - Perry Anderson: The Merciless Laboratory of History (1998) Gregory Elliott - Ends in Sight: Marx/Fukuyama/Hobsbawm/Anderson (2008) Gregory Elliott - Hobsbawm: History and Politics (2010) Neil Faulkner - A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals (2013) Chris Harman - A People's History of the World (1999) E. J. Hobsbawm - The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 (1962) E. J. Hobsbawm - Industry and Empire: An Economic History of Britain since 1750 (1968) E. J. Hobsbawm - Revolutionaries: Contemporary Essays (1973) E. J. Hobsbawm - The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 (1975) E. J. Hobsbawm - Worlds of Labour: Further Studies in the History of Labour (1984) E. J. Hobsbawm - The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (1987) E. J. Hobsbawm - Nations and nationalism since 1780: Programme, myth and reality (1992) E. J. Hobsbawm - The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (1994) E. J. Hobsbawm - How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism (2011) Karl Kautsky - Foundations of Christianity: A Study in Christian Origins (1925) Karl Kautsky - The Materialist Conception of History (1988) Xavier Lafrance, Charles Post - Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism (2019) MARHO - Visions of History (1983) Larry Patriquin - The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader (2012) Charles Post - The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877 (2011) Kees van der Pijl - The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class (2012) Maxime Rodinson - Mohammed (1971) Maxime Rodinson - Islam and Capitalism (1973) Isaac Ilych Rubin - A History of Economic Thought (1979) G.E.M. de Ste. Croix - The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: from the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests (1981) E. P. Thompson - The Making of the English Working Class (1963) Ellen Meiksins Wood - Democracy against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism (1995) Ellen Meiksins Wood, Neal Wood - A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism, 1509-1688 (1997) Ellen Meiksins Wood - The Retreat from Class: A New "True" Socialism (1998) Ellen Meiksins Wood - The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View (2002) Ellen Meiksins Wood - Empire of Capital (2005) Ellen Meiksins Wood - Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages (2008) Ellen Meiksins Wood - Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Renaissance to Enlightenment (2012)
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:03 No. 3486
>>3485 I would like to use this post to gauge interest in a much larger list of available books related to Marxism and the left.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:03 No. 3488
>>3486 Always love book lists with historiographical commentary - colligating by themes or theses or how people think the arguments held up - but a big long list of titles on its own isn't quite as useful to me; I can pull any of that up (and often do) with a "search within text" bar on my favorite pdf procurement site.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:23 No. 3686
>>1791 Don't care, books are very good
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:23 No. 3687
>>1445 I do remember that thread, somebody said they were a student of him for a semester or two
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:24 No. 3690
>>3689 is it good I've been planning to read it
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:24 No. 3691
Jairus Banaji's Theory as History is very, very good; highly recommended if you want to understand the purpose of Marxist historiography in the 21st century.
Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:24 No. 3693
Franz Mehring
Anonymous 2022-01-03 (Mon) 05:15:47 No. 9177
Any in history of socialism/communism overall or concerning countries, preferably overall and how actually existing socialism actually functioned in practice?
Anonymous 2022-01-03 (Mon) 12:18:28 No. 9182
>>9180 Losurdo is groved furr tier. I'm sorry, i know he's loved on this site.
Anonymous 2022-01-03 (Mon) 12:20:51 No. 9184
>>9183 Well Grover Furr is also very good in addition to Losurdo
Anonymous 2022-01-03 (Mon) 12:27:44 No. 9185
>>9183 Because he's not an historian and having read his book ok Nietzsche and the one on Heidegger i'd argue he's bit of a brainlet too.
Not to mention a dengist
Anonymous 2022-01-03 (Mon) 20:52:52 No. 9219
>>9185 yet what discredits Losurdo's research ?, because having a diploma is not an excuse for it being valid or not, or else communism is in copium because Robert Conquest and Winston Churchill was right of everything.
Anonymous 2022-01-03 (Mon) 22:28:18 No. 9224
>>9219 Like i said i've carefully read the books Nietzsche and the one on Heidegger mostly, partially his book on Stalin were I rember few citations of original sources, his work was good as far as analysing and dismantling the "mythical" of Stalin but not as far as actual reserch.
Anonymous 2022-01-03 (Mon) 22:34:27 No. 9225
>>9185 >>9224 The stanford encyclopedia of philosophy has cited his book in their article on Nietsche, so idk…he can't be that much of a brainlet can he?
Anonymous 2022-01-04 (Tue) 15:38:48 No. 9247
>>9225 Jung is cited too and he was a Brainlet.
Anonymous 2022-01-04 (Tue) 15:41:12 No. 9248
>>9247 Nah lad it's that he wrote a decent chunk of his work high on cocaine
Anonymous 2022-01-04 (Tue) 17:50:53 No. 9250
>>9249 There are some very good Jung books
Basically you start reading and if he's just doing cocaine word salad with no logical negations discard the book
If he sound sober there's a good chance there's some real interesting shit in there
Anonymous 2022-01-04 (Tue) 18:46:03 No. 9251
>>9250 i'll give it a try again then
Anonymous 2022-01-24 (Mon) 07:01:21 No. 9492
the early Annales school
Sage 2022-02-21 (Mon) 14:26:15 No. 9843
Why do even communists sometimes shit on Furr? What is the criticism? So far I have only read Bloood Lies and it is quite an indepth, meticulous deconstruction of Snyder's book. Why is Furr disliked among comrades as well?
Anonymous 2022-02-21 (Mon) 14:27:12 No. 9844
Oops with the sage whatever
Anonymous 2022-04-02 (Sat) 00:06:29 No. 10282
>>9843 He's often accused of misquoting the historians he criticizes. Whether that's true or not is something I am too ignorant to tell you.
Anonymous 2023-07-14 (Fri) 19:50:30 No. 19391
I remember someone from the leftypol area posted a Soviet historian, named Zoloyev (Zolotev?), but can't find him. Apparently was really, really good.
Anonymous 2023-07-16 (Sun) 15:44:49 No. 19857
>>9843 for no real reason really.
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