Davidson discusses how Marxism can retain a sense of historical tradition without becoming fossilized.

Neil Davidson is the author of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (2000), Discovering the Scottish Revolution (2003), for which he was awarded the Deutscher Prize, and How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (2012). Davidson lectures in Sociology in the School of Political and Social Science at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Preface

1. Tom Nairn and the Inevitability of Nationalism
2. Marx and Engels on the Scottish Highlands
3. The Prophet, His Biographer and the Watchtower: Isaac Deutscher's Trotsky
4. Alasdair MacIntyre as a Marxist
5. Reimagined Communities: Benedict Anderson after 20 Years
6. Walter Benjamin and the Classical Marxist Tradition
7. Shock and Awe: Naomi Klein on Neoliberalism
8. Antonio Gramsci's Reception in Scotland
9. Eric Hobsbawm's Unanswered Question
10. The Adventures of Adam Smith in the 21st Century