The Historical
Materialist and the Concept of History
Just to note that the above essay, on the Philosophy of
History page in this website, has been newly revised. It deals with the intellectual roots of
Marxism and its historical materialism via a discussion of the 1978 work The Poverty of Theory’ by Marxist
historian EP Thompson in his famous polemic against the French structuralist
Marxist Louis Althusser. In fact I give
the great Thompson, who died in 1993, a bit of a rough time – who am I to do
that? Anyhow, you might like to judge for yourself!
Happy reading!
