Thе Pаths of History
Publisher: Саmbridgе Univеrsity Prеss
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1999-09-28
List price: $99.00
This is a broad and ambitious study of the entire history of humanity that takes as its point of departure Marx’s theory of social evolution. Professor Diakonoff’s theory of world history differs from Marx’s in a number of ways. First, he has expanded Marx’s five stages of development to eight. Second, he denies that social evolution necessarily implies progress and shows how "each progress is simultaneously a regress," and third, he demonstrates that the transition from one stage to another is not necessarily marked by social conflict and that sometimes this is achieve...