This is a broad and ambitious study of the entire history of
humanity which takes as its point of departure Marx's theory of
social evolution. However, Professor Diakonoff's theory of world
history differs from Marx's in a number of ways. Firstly he has
expanded Marx's five stages of development to eight. Secondly he
denies that social evolution necessarily implies progress and shows
how 'each progress is simultaneously a regress', and thirdly he
demonstrates that the transition from one stage to another is not
necessarily marked by social conflict and that sometimes this is
achieved peacefully and gracefully. As the book moves through these
various stages, the reader is drawn into a remarkable and
thought-provoking study of the process of the history of the human
race which focuses on the wide range of factors (economic, social,
military-technological, and socio-pyschological) which have
influenced our development from palaeolithic times to the present
day.
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