Class Struggle in the Roman Republic
About this audiobook
“The Republic was dying on its feet because its social basis had ceased to exist.
This fact expressed itself in continuous political crises and convulsions in the capital, party strife, revolutions and counter-revolutions.”
In the first complete Marxist history of the Roman Republic, Alan Woods provides a gripping and accessible analysis of the titanic struggles that shaped the Roman world, and continue to resonate today.
Spanning more than a thousand years of development, the book delves into the fundamental processes which gave rise to the emergence of Rome as an imperial power, the crisis of the Late Republic and the rise of the Caesars. It also features additional material by the author on the eventual decline of the Roman Empire and the Marxist theory of the state.
This book offers a treasure trove of history and theory for any reader.
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About the author
Alan Woods was born in Swansea, South Wales, in 1944 into a working-class family with strong communist traditions. At the age of sixteen, he joined the Labour Party Young Socialists and became a Marxist. He studied Russian at Sussex University and later in Sofia and the Moscow State University.
He has a wide experience of the international labour movement and played an active role in building the Marxist tendency in Spain, where he participated in the struggle against the Franco dictatorship. He was later active in Pakistan, Mexico and other countries, including Venezuela, where he developed a close relationship with the late Hugo Chavez, and founded the international campaign, ‘Hands off Venezuela’.
Woods is the author of many works covering a wide spectrum of issues, including politics, economics, history, philosophy, art, music and science. He is also the political editor of the popular website, ‘In Defence of Marxism’ (marxist.com), and a leading member of the International Marxist Tendency.
He has authored many other books, including: Lenin and Trotsky: What they Really Stood For and Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science, both in conjunction with the late Ted Grant; The Ideas of Karl Marx; Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution; Spain’s Revolution Against Franco: The Great Betrayal; Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution; and The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective. He also edited and compiled the most authentic edition of Trotsky’s last unfinished work, the biography of Stalin, which had remained incomplete for seventy years.
His books have been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, Chinese, Danish, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Urdu.
