WE CANNOT ESCAPE HISTORY
Marxism, Transitions, and Revolutions
Neil Davidson
Haymarket Books (2015, world English rights)
Trade paper • ISBN-13: 9781608464678 • US $22 • 5 1/2 in x 8 7/8 in • 500 pgs.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Neil Davidson explores classic themes of nation, state, and revolution in this collection of essays. Ranging from the extent to which nationalism can be a component of left-wing politics to the difference between bourgeois and socialist revolutions, the book concludes with an extended discussion of the different meanings history has for conservatives, radicals, and Marxists.
PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR:
Praise for How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?:
“I was frankly pole-axed by this magnificent book. Davidson resets the entire debate on the character of revolutions: bourgeois, democratic and socialist. He’s sending me, at least, back to the library.”
Mike Davis
“How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? is a monumental work. Neil Davidson has given us what is easily the most comprehensive account yet of the ‘life and times’ of the concept of ‘bourgeois revolution,’ from its origins in seventeenth and eighteenth century political thought through its distillation in classical Marxism and onward to more recent debates and revisions. This would have been enough. However, Davidson has also provided us with a refined set of theoretical tools for understanding the often complex interactions between political revolutions which overturn state institutions and social revolutions which involve a more thorough-going transformation of social relations. Contemporary debates over the meaning of revolution, from 1989 in Eastern Europe to the Arab Spring, Davidson rightly insists, demonstrate that the past is far from dead nor is the revolution ever finally over. This deeply committed work of scholarship, succeeds magnificently in rescuing the idea of revolution ‘from the condescension of (bourgeois) posterity.’”
Colin Mooers
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Neil Davidson is the author of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (2000), Discovering the Scottish Revolution (2003), for which he was awarded the Deutscher Prize, How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Haymarket, 2012), and Holding Fast to An Image of the Past (Haymarket, 2013). Davidson lectures in Sociology in the School of Political and Social Science at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR
As Radical as Reality Itself: Marxism and Tradition
Holding Fast to an Image of the Past: Essays on Marxism and History
How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?
Nation-States: Consciousness and Competition
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