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Book SynopsisThis work provides a comparative history of the development of Marxist theory in Great Britain, concentrating on the years between the Great Depression and the Cold War. Roberts argues that during this period, there developed among intellectuals a distinctly Anglicized form of Marxism.
Trade ReviewRoberts has produced a valuable and erudite study of the native historical context of analytical Marxism/socialism . . . provocative and original, and merits the attention of all who are concerned with the origins and development of that tradition. -- Graeme Kirkpatrick, Head of Sociology, University of Manchester
This book is a needed addition to scholarship on British political history and British political theory. . . . Roberts has produced a work that elucidates a deep reservoir of Marxist thought in twentieth-century Britain. In so doing, he has offered the reader a picture of a more integrated and interconnected British Marxist culture than one may have assumed. * American Political Science Review *
Roberts presents a fine summary of the essentially class-oriented if theoretically imperfect Marxism of the ' autodicats' . -- Sheila Cohen * Capital & Class *
The Anglo-Marxists is uniquely valuable for its precise summaries and thoughtful assessments of the work of hitherto neglected Communist thinkers such as John Lewis and Maurice Cornforth from a humane but critical perspective. -- Alan Wald, professor emeritus of English and American culture, University of Michigan
