Sooner or later, almost everyone within the left-wing intelligentsia received either a private or a public admonition for his or her failure to interpret justly and, consequently, to act justly in the cause. As a result (to mix metaphors), he became the storm petrel of Britain’s intellectual left for over 40 years, from the 1940s to the early1990s. Yet his intellect was volcanic, often smouldering, always fiery, and from time to time truly igniting. Thompson also loved to immerse himself in the slow and steady assessment of original source materials from history, anthropology, and literature. Indeed, one of the left-wing journals with which he was involved was entitled The New Reasoner. Thompson’s intellectual life as a historian, Marxist thinker, and informed campaigner. The first thing that stands out from this study is how passionate and volcanic was E.
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