Miguel Afonso Caetano"I’m hardly an adept in the finer points of Capital like some of my friends, but just to confine ourselves to the study of history: In almost every field, when you look at what the Marxist or Marxisant or “radical” historians have done, what they have been or are debating, it’s often incomparably richer and more commanding than the liberal historiography: classical antiquity (Geoffrey Ste. Croix, Peter Rose); medieval Europe (Rodney Hilton, Christopher Wickham); early modern England (Christopher Hill, Edward and Dorothy Thompson, Robert Brenner); the French Revolution (Georges Lefebvre, Michel Vovelle); modern Europe (Eric Hobsbawm, Perry Anderson); the American Civil War and Reconstruction (W.E.B. Du Bois, Barbara Fields); modern Southeast Asia (Syed Farid Alatas, Jim Glassman); Modern Africa (Walter Rodney, Claude Ake, Ruth First, Rahmane Idrissa); India (D.D. Kosambi, Ranajit Guha, Susobhan and Sumit Sarkar); US foreign relations (the Kolkos, Arno Mayer, Marilyn Young, Anders Stephanson, Tim Barker), etc. It’s comical that the snake-oil historians and Great Ideas peddlers of the pop-up academies of the American right think they have an intellectual tradition that can contend with this one, and the cleverer among them know it. As for liberal history-writing in the 20th century, there seems to be little question that it was at its most formidable, its most “vital,” when it felt itself under pressure from Marxism, or when it was more transparently parasitic on it. One of the stories of our time may be Marxism’s revenge on societies that thought they had killed it off."
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