THE HISTORY OF MARXISM: MARXISM IN MARX'S DAY

The History of Marxism is the first full and exhaustive attempt to root the development of Marxist thought in political struggle and to relate it to the history and growth of the working class movement. Accepting Marxism as both a method for interpreting the world and a method for changing it the history extends to the major thinkers of Marxism and its revisionists the movements that owe or claim to owe their inspiration to Marxism the revolutions to which Marxits have been a party and the attempts that have been made to construct a socialist society. Eric J. Hobsbawm was born in 1917 and politicised at secondary school in Berlin 1931-33. Has taught History at Birkbeck College London for good many years. Has written extensively on history with special emphasis on social movements politics Marxism and at one time on jazz.