Publication: La revolución democrática en E.P. Thompson : una forma radical de escribir historia
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Sanz Loroño, Miguel Ángel ; Coma Vives, Francisco
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Murcia : Universidad de Murcia, Departamento de Sociología y Trabajo Social
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Este artículo se ocupa de uno de los principales temas desarrollados por
Thompson en La formación de la clase obrera en Inglaterra, frecuentemente
ignorado por la historiografía: el del fallido proyecto de revolución democrática
en Inglaterra a finales del siglo XVIII y principios del siglo XIX. El evocar
nuevamente los proyectos populares que fueron aniquilados por el liberalismo,
supone no sólo revalorizar esas luchas dentro de su propio contexto histórico.
Constituye también un intento por poner en cuestión las teorías liberales de la
modernización que minimizan el papel del conflicto social y de la clase
trabajadora en la historia. Por otra parte, para entender el contenido de la obra
de Thompson desde esta perspectiva, y siguiendo en buena medida a Walter
Benjamin y a la teoría literaria marxista y postestructuralista, creemos
imprescindible atender también a la forma en la que Thompson concebía la
historia, así como a alguna de las exclusiones y contradicciones más evidentes
que conformaron la producción y recepción de su obra.
ABSTRACT This article deals with one of the foremost but frequently neglected issues raised by E.P. Thompson´s The Making of The English Working Class: the abortion of a fully democratic revolution in late Eighteenth Century and early Nineteenth Century-England. Reconsidering the popular projects that were annihilated by liberalism means not only to reevaluate those popular fights in the framework of their historical context; it also implies a historical critique of the liberal theories of modernization, whose main result consists in a symbolic repression of class struggles and exploitation. In order to understand Thompson’s work from this point of view, and building on the Marxist and poststructuralist literary theory, we need to closer look at his own theory of history as well as at his most fruitful contradictions. Thus, Thompson’s work becomes an endless inspiration for understanding the history of capitalism and its alternatives.
ABSTRACT This article deals with one of the foremost but frequently neglected issues raised by E.P. Thompson´s The Making of The English Working Class: the abortion of a fully democratic revolution in late Eighteenth Century and early Nineteenth Century-England. Reconsidering the popular projects that were annihilated by liberalism means not only to reevaluate those popular fights in the framework of their historical context; it also implies a historical critique of the liberal theories of modernization, whose main result consists in a symbolic repression of class struggles and exploitation. In order to understand Thompson’s work from this point of view, and building on the Marxist and poststructuralist literary theory, we need to closer look at his own theory of history as well as at his most fruitful contradictions. Thus, Thompson’s work becomes an endless inspiration for understanding the history of capitalism and its alternatives.
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