Perry Anderson

Nov 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Perry Anderson

As E H Carr famously noted, ‘studying the historian’ is key to understanding how history is written. This is especially true when it comes to the debate over the origins of the First World War, a controversy that began before the first shots had even been fired in 1914 and rumbles on more than a hundred years later.

Oct 31, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Perry Anderson

Fred Jameson, unceasingly productive to the end, died in September at the age of ninety. His legacy is so large that no short-range attempt to take the measure of it is practicable. I’ve written about parts of it twice, of which repetition would be out of place here. It seems better to confine myself to just saying something—inevitably personal—about a relationship that mattered a lot to me, as it did to nlr, for fifty years. From the start I was conscious of significant differences between us.

Aug 9, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Perry Anderson

I. THE ITALIAN PARTYThe Italian Communist Party, in exile and jail for 20 years under Mussolini, was re-formed in 1944 in the throes of the Resistance. Relatively uncompromised by the equivocations and complicities of the 30’s, the Party’s formative experience was national resistance and insurrection. The majority of its cadres were younger than those of the other West European Communist parties.

May 3, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Perry Anderson

Acouple of years prior to the centenary of the First World War appeared a work which has transformed public understanding of its outbreak as no other has done since it came to an end, Christopher Clark’s Sleepwalkers.* The tributes it earned, though not quite universal, were overwhelming in register and extent, translations and sales of another order from any previous history of the conflict.

May 3, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Perry Anderson

Acouple of years prior to the centenary of the First World War appeared a work which has transformed public understanding of its outbreak as no other has done since it came to an end, Christopher Clark’s Sleepwalkers.* The tributes it earned, though not quite universal, were overwhelming in register and extent, translations and sales of another order from any previous history of the conflict.