The argument against Stalinism was an argument against the party (CPGB) and its version of history, not against Marxist historians (most of whom were of a very high calibre and EPT saw as comrades)
In Arguments Within English Marxism, Perry Anderson rightly notes that in his argumentative mode Thompson wrote jeremiads, a genre not known for accuracy.
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Yes — just finished re-reading that, in fact — but obviously Anderson is looking primarily at Thompson’s post-MEWC work, not at the making of MEWC, as it were.
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