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What Marxism Means to an American Historian
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A personal experience was prompted by a personal experience as discussed by the authors, when in Europe recently, I had a bitter dispute with a German friend about the Marxist interpretation of certain aspects of the industrial revolution.Abstract:
THIS ESSAY was prompted by a personal experience. When in Europe recently, I had a bitter dispute with a German friend about the Marxist interpretation of certain aspects of the industrial revolution. My friend insisted, or so it seemed to me, on an analysis that could have been taken from the pages of Neues Deutschland, i.e., "The dirty old British bankers were responsible for imperialism." Moreover, when I objected to his "simplifications," I, along with all American historians, found myself accused of flabby thinking, of lacking any proper critical method. Perhaps my German friend is correct. David C. McClelland notes, in Roots of Consciousness, thatread more
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“Why historians have failed to recognize Mises’s Theory and History”
TL;DR: Theory and History is often said to be Ludwig von Mises' least read and least appreciated book as discussed by the authors, and it has been argued that historians in the Anglo-American world generally did not understand the German and Austrian traditions that Mises drew on and therefore fundamentally misunderstood its purpose.
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The Making of the English Working Class
TL;DR: Fifty years since first publication, E P Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny as discussed by the authors.
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The Making of the English Working Class
R. Currie,R. M. Hartwell +1 more
TL;DR: The main controversialists in the standard-of-living debate have come from the fringes of the established academic world, from areas remote from agreed courses and acceptable topics; their work, criticized as polemical, is certainly spirited, even aggressive as discussed by the authors.
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
TL;DR: It is unpardonable to sacrifice to the greed of an unfeeling bourgeoisie the time of children which should be devoted solely to their physical and mental development, and to withdraw them from school and the fresh air in order to wear them out for the benefit of the manufacturers.