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Class conflict and the path to revolution -- Prehistoric communal clans (Middle East) -- Revolution from communal equality to slavery (Middle East) -- Decline and fall of the Roman Empire: Revolution from slavery to feudalism -- The English Revolution (1640-60): From Feudalism to Capitalism -- The American Revolution (1776): From colony to capitalism -- French Revolution (1789): From feudalism to capitalism -- American Civil War (1861): Revolution from slavery to capitalism -- Anti-colonial revolutions for independence such as India -- The Russian Revolution -- The Chinese Revolution -- The progressive theory of revolution -- The present as history.

This classic text offers a broader intellectual foundation than traditional principles textbooks. It introduces students to both traditional economic views and their progressive critique. Revised, expanded, and updated for this new edition, the text puts the study of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and globalization in their historical context. While covering the same topics as a traditional text, it also offers a richer discussion of economic history and the history of economic thought, including the ideas of Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and John Maynard Keynes. This allows students to see ec

Prehistoric communal institutions in the Middle East -- From communal equality to slavery in the Middle East -- From slavery to feudalism in Western Europe -- From feudalism to capitalism in Western Europe -- From pre-capitalism to capitalism in the United States, 1776-1865 -- Slavery in the United States, 1776-1865 -- Rise of corporate capitalism in the United States, 1865-1900 -- Growth and depression in the United States, 1900-1940 -- Development of the United States under global capitalism, 1940-2004 -- Inequality in the United States under global capitalism -- Economic instability and environment in the United States under global capitalism -- Rise and fall of the Soviet Union -- Beginnings of economic democracy -- Lessons from the story of evolution

The collapse of the Soviet Union provides economist Howard Sherman with the opportunity to re-evaluate Marxism as an alternative to conventional pro-capitalist perspectives. Arguing that Soviet Marxism distorted Marxian thought, Sherman acknowledges that Marxism must move beyond its traditional Soviet formulation. What is needed, he writes, is a new, critical Marxism that is integral to a radical political economy - a Marxism that sees society as an organic whole dependent upon an integrated set of relationships. Sherman applies his relational-historical approach to four problems: poverty and exploitation, unemployment, the state, and the history of the Soviet Union. Then, using the same approach, he explores several important subjects of classical Marxism - dialectics, materialism, determinism, and Marxian humanism. The result is an understanding of Marxism that is more open-ended, flexible, and nuanced than previous approaches had allowed. In the final part of the book Sherman reconstructs contemporary Marxism as a political economy, and uses it as a critique of such failed communist societies as the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union. He also shows how Marxism can be a valuable tool for examining society, economics, and politics in the United States