The Cynical Historian

EP Thompson: The Foremost Marxist in History | Historians who changed History (2018x36)

Air date: Oct 26, 2018

Today let's talk about Marxist historians. Edward Palmer Thompson makes perhaps the best introduction to the realm of Marxist history. His work on the English Labor Class, allows for a better understanding of the Marxist project, and how understanding class consciousness can lead to revolution. ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Beard, Charles. “Written History as an act of Faith.” The American Historical Review 39, no. 2 (January 1934), 219-231. Marx, Karl. The Essential Marx. ed. Leon Trotsky, abridgment of Das Kapital, Vol. I. 1939; Mineola, N.York: Dover Publications, 2006. https://amzn.to/2MWygco Thompson, E.P. “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century.” Past and Present, No. 50 (Feb., 1971), 76-136. Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Pantheon Books, 1963. https://amzn.to/2KFSESC Special thanks to Dr. Colleen Hall-Patton for proofreading the script for this episode. ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or pick up some merchandise at SpreadShirt: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/cynicalhistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://discord.gg/Ukthk4U https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: Edward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993), usually cited as E. P. Thompson, was a British historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class (1963).[1] He also published influential biographies of William Morris (1955) and (posthumously) William Blake (1993)