A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals eBook

This magisterial analysis of human history – from ‘Lucy’, the first hominid, to the current global depression – combines the insights of earlier generations of Marxist historians with radical new ideas about the historical process. Reading history against the grain, Neil Faulkner reveals that what happened in the past was not predetermined. Choices were numerous different outcomes – liberation or barbarism – were often possible. Rejecting the top-down approach of conventional history, Faulkner contends that it is the mass action of ordinary people that drives great events. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, humans face perhaps the greatest crisis in their history. The lesson of this book is that, since we created our past, we can also create a better future.