Marxist History

[JamesH]

I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good historical works about the decline of the Roman Empire and the origins of fedualism from a Marxist perspective.

Actually, the author need not really be Marxist; I'm just looking a materialist point of view.

[Paul Cockshott]

It is worth reading Kautskys Foundations of Christianity, Perry Andersons Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, and Jones Economic and Social History of the Later Roman Empire

[Sixiang]

I would also recommend you check out this section of MIA: http://www.marxists.org/subject/precapitalist/index.htm

There's also this book: http://www.amazon.com/Pre-Capitalist-Economic-Formations-Karl-Marx/dp/0717801659/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306638823&sr=8-1-fkmr1

[MarxSchmarx]

Lord and Peasant in Russia by J Blum documents how feudalism usurped the prerogatives of a free peasantry slowly but decisively over the course of decades. It is a terrifying read of how free farmers who rented land gave up one concession after another that led to the dismantling of their rights as free people and became serfs in a matter of generations.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

It's been 2-3 years since I read it, but some chapters in A People's History of the World by Chris Williams may be helpful.