The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture

by Edwin A. Roberts

Overview

In this book, Edwin Roberts provides a comparative intellectual history of the development of Marxist theory in Great Britian, concentrating on the years between the Great Depression and the Cold War. Roberts argues that during this period there developed among university-educated intellectuals a distinctively Anglicized form of Marxist theory that prefigured the analytical Marxism so prominent in the English-speaking world today. Roberts' important book explores this school_a precursor to contemporary analytical Marxism_examining key figures such as Haldane and Bernal and providing readers with a compelling argument for the significance of Anglo-Marxism in the tradition of Marxist thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847683956
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/30/1996
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Edwin A. Roberts is assistant professor of political science at California State University, Long Beach.

Editorial Reviews

Roberts presents a fine summary of the essentially class-oriented if theoretically imperfect Marxism of the ' autodicats' .

Capital & Class - Sheila Cohen

This book is a needed addition to scholarship on British political history and British political theory.. .. Roberts has produced a work that elucidates a deep reservoir of Marxist thought in twentieth-century Britain. In so doing, he has offered the reader a picture of a more integrated and interconnected British Marxist culture than one may have assumed.

American Political Science Review

Roberts has produced a valuable and erudite study of the native historical context of analytical Marxism/socialism. .. provocative and original, and merits the attention of all who are concerned with the origins and development of that tradition.

Graeme Kirkpatrick

The Anglo-Marxists is uniquely valuable for its precise summaries and thoughtful assessments of the work of hitherto neglected Communist thinkers such as John Lewis and Maurice Cornforth from a humane but critical perspective.

Alan Wald

Roberts presents a fine summary of the essentially class-oriented if theoretically imperfect Marxism of the ' autodicats' .
— sheila Cohen

Capital and Class

Roberts presents a fine summary of the essentially class-oriented if theoretically imperfect Marxism of the ' autodicats' .

Capital and Class - sheila Cohen