{"id":59238,"date":"2020-08-01T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=59238"},"modified":"2020-08-21T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T17:36:50","slug":"ep-thompson-the-foremost-marxist-in-history-historians-who-changed-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/08\/01\/ep-thompson-the-foremost-marxist-in-history-historians-who-changed-history\/","title":{"rendered":"EP Thompson: The Foremost Marxist in History | Historians who changed History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Igb9f_cSRBk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Cynical Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 1 Nov 2018<\/p>\n<p>Today let&#8217;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.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nreferences:<br \/>\nBeard, Charles. &#8220;Written History as an act of Faith&#8221;, <em>The American Historical Review<\/em> 39, no. 2 (January 1934), 219-231.<\/p>\n<p>Marx, Karl. <em>The Essential Marx.  ed. Leon Trotsky, abridgment of Das Kapital, Vol. I.<\/em> 1939; Mineola, N.York: Dover Publications, 2006. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MWygco\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MWygco<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thompson, E.P. &#8220;The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century&#8221;, <em>Past and Present<\/em>, No. 50 (Feb., 1971), 76-136.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, E.P. <em>The Making of the English Working Class<\/em>. New York: Pantheon Books, 1963.  <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KFSESC\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KFSESC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Dr. Colleen Hall-Patton for proofreading the script for this episode.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nSupport the channel through Patreon:<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/CynicalHistorian\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/CynicalHistorian<\/a><br \/>\nor pick up some merchandise at SpreadShirt:<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fshop.spreadshirt.com%2Fcynicalhistorian&#038;event=video_description&#038;v=Igb9f_cSRBk&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUtYYmVoVWFCVk5scmFMZDlNNzhQWnhLY1JkQXxBQ3Jtc0ttdHVFRTFaSUNvbVQ3OUZuRDdobU40R1VDcWdDRHdWS0lMOWRGblVtOFBpc2FwVDNaRkFFblVmM2g2dmVRQjNDWHdHWXB5ZmppVWVHT2pTWkpBOGIzQVVfM1FvSzQ0MVMzOWx2V05VQmlocUpVOTZNQQ%3D%3D\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/shop.spreadshirt.com\/cynicalh&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LET&#8217;S CONNECT:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/Ukthk4U\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/Ukthk4U<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cynical_History\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cynical_History<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nWiki:<br \/>\nEdward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 \u2013 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). He also published influential biographies of William Morris (1955) and (posthumously) William Blake (1993) and was a prolific journalist and essayist. He also published the novel <em>The Sykaos Papers<\/em> and a collection of poetry. His work is considered to have been among the most important contributions to labour history and social history in the latter twentieth-century, with a global impact, including on scholarship in Asia and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson was one of the principal intellectuals of the Communist Party in Great Britain. Although he left the party in 1956 over the Soviet invasion of Hungary, he nevertheless remained a &#8220;historian in the Marxist tradition&#8221;, calling for a rebellion against Stalinism as a prerequisite for the restoration of communists&#8217; &#8220;confidence in our own revolutionary perspectives&#8221;. Thompson played a key role in the first New Left in Britain in the late 1950s. He was a vociferous left-wing socialist critic of the Labour governments of 1964\u201370 and 1974\u201379, and an early and constant supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, becoming during the 1980s the leading intellectual light of the movement against nuclear weapons in Europe.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nHashtags:  #History #Marx #EPThompson #ClassConsiousness #Materialism #TheMakingOfTheEnglishWorkingClass<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-01-EP-Thompson-The-Foremost-Marxist-in-History-Historians-who-changed-History.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-01-EP-Thompson-The-Foremost-Marxist-in-History-Historians-who-changed-History-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-59240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-01-EP-Thompson-The-Foremost-Marxist-in-History-Historians-who-changed-History-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-01-EP-Thompson-The-Foremost-Marxist-in-History-Historians-who-changed-History-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-01-EP-Thompson-The-Foremost-Marxist-in-History-Historians-who-changed-History-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-01-EP-Thompson-The-Foremost-Marxist-in-History-Historians-who-changed-History-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot_2020-08-01-EP-Thompson-The-Foremost-Marxist-in-History-Historians-who-changed-History.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cynical Historian Published 1 Nov 2018 Today let&#8217;s talk about Marxist historians. Edward Palmer Thompson makes perhaps the best introduction to the realm of Marxist history. 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