The three texts published here were written in the mid-1970s. John Breuilly, “Critique of P. Anderson, Lineages of the Absolutist State” Theodor Shanin, “The Marxism(s) of Our Time” Michael Evans, “Some Notes on Perry Anderson” Here I explain how these came about. Back in 1974, I was teaching on a Modern Politics and History degree
Commentaries on Perry Anderson’s Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State: Introduction
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