Robin Blackburn
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Robin Blackburn (born 1940) is a British socialist historian, a former editor of New Left Review, and author of a number of works on Marxism and the history of Slavery in the New World. A former member of the International Marxist Group, he is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research in New York City.
[edit] Selected works/articles
- Prologue to the Cuban revolution (1963)
- Towards socialism / edited for the "New Left Review" (with Perry Anderson) (1966)
- The incompatibles : trade union militancy and the consensus (with Alexander Cockburn)(1967)
- Student power : problems, diagnosis, action (edited with Alexander Cockburn) (1969)
- Strategy for revolution [essays by Regis Debray translated from the French](editor) (1970)
- Ideology in social science : readings in critical social theory (editor) (1972)
- Explosion in a subcontinent : India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Ceylon (editor) (1975)
- Revolution and class struggle : a reader in Marxist politics (editor) (1977)
- The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848 (1988)
- After the fall : the failure of communism and the future of socialism (editor) (1991)
- Abolition and emancipation in comparative perspective (1992)
- The making of New World slavery : from the baroque to the modern, 1492-1800 (1997)
- Banking on Death: Or, Investing in Life — The History and Future of Pensions (2002)
- Age Shock and Pension Power: Grey Capital and the Challenge of the Aging Society (2007)
[edit] External links
- Homepage
- Guardian profile
- John Lennon interview (with Tariq Ali) (1971)
- Class forces in the Cuban Revolution book review in International Socialism 2:9, (1980)
- Reviewing the millennia, book review in International Socialism, 2:86 (Spring 2000)
- New School for Social Research (New York) Homepage
