01458cam a2200217 i 4500008004100000020001800041020001800059040000800077050002300085100002100108245008900129246002500218260003400243300001800277490001600295505001700311520083700328650002801165650002801193650001901221130917s2013    enka     b    000 0 eng d  a9780745332154  a9780745332147  aSDU00aD16.9bF263 M 20131 aFaulkner, Neil.,12aA Marxist History of the World :bFrom Neanderthals to Neoliberals /cNeil Faulkner.30aHistory of the world  aLondon : bPluto Press,c2013  a342 p. :bill0 aCounterfire0 aHKBU Library  aThis magisterial analysis of human history 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 frequent and 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 21st century - with economic disaster, war, climate catastrophe and deep class divisions - humans face perhaps the greatest crisis in the long history of our species. The lesson of A Marxist History of the World is that, since we created our past, we can also create a better future. 0aHistorical materialism. 0aMarxian historiography. 0aWorld history.