Contents

Preface ix

1. Tom Nairn and the Inevitability of Nationalism 1

2. Marx and Engels on the Scottish Highlands 45

3. The Prophet, His Biographer, and the Watchtower: Isaac Deutscher’s Biography of Leon Trotsky 81

4. There’s No Place Like the United States Today: Victor Kiernan and Neil Smith on US Imperialism 111

5. Carnival, March, Riot: David Renton on the Anti-Nazi League 121

6. Alasdair MacIntyre as a Marxist 129

7. Reimagined Communities: Benedict Anderson’s Theory of Nationalism 183

8. Walter Benjamin and the Classical Marxist Tradition 205

9. Shock and Awe: Naomi Klein’s Interpretation of Neoliberalism 229

10. Antonio Gramsci’s Reception in Scotland 253

11. Women and the Lost World of Scottish Communism: Neil Rafeek’s Communist Women in Scotland 287

12. Eric Hobsbawm’s Unanswered Question 301

13. The Posthumous Adventures of Adam Smith 317

Notes 345

Index 405