And now for something completely different...

Occasionally, I worry that some people find their way to this site looking for seriously good Marxist writing about historical philosophy, and so perhaps leave rather quickly, feeling that my blog has definitely broken some sort of trades descriptions act in its title. Yet just because (so far) this blog has not got lots of detailed discussions of the mode of production, the forces and relations of production, base and superstructure, Kautsky and Plekhanov, etc etc. shouldn't make it completely useless. What I propose to do is when I find some hard Marxist theoretical stuff online, to let you know about it with a quick link. So here is James Holstun, author of the excellent Ehud's Dagger; Class Struggle and the English Revolution, defending Marxism in a reply to some Early Modern historians in Early Modern Culture. The rest of the time I will continue to carry on serving up random posts about random things. Just be thankful I have not decided to inflict my vulgar Marxist political analysis of Coldplay on you ('the flaccid liberalism of Coldplay') - as the song I have had of theirs in my head for the last couple of days seems to have finally gone - which is an enormous relief I can tell you.