![]() ![]() This collection introduces readers to the thought of an outstanding left historian who combined commitment with original and open-minded inquiry. 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.Īlso available from Monthly Review Press: The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays by E. ![]() 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. They reveal Thompson’s insistence on the vitality of a humanistic and democratic socialism along with the value of utopian thinking in radical politics. The essays in this book, many of which are either out-of-print or difficult to obtain, were written between 19 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. ![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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