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Afterword to 'A New Britannia'
Posted on Wednesday, January 12 @ 02:03:59 CST by spno |
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 Australian Marxist historian, Humphrey McQueen, published his classic 'A New Britannia' in 1970. It was a welcome antedote to the works of the pro-ALP and pro-Communist Party of Australia historians who had mainly concentrated on the obvious historic traditions of the working class while largely playing down the other side of racism, White Australia Policy, and petty bourgeois consciousness.
However, as McQueen later admitted, his book bent the stick too far and in this afterword he outlines a more balanced and brilliant marxist analysis of the origins of the ALP and the rise of Australian capitalism.
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