Paul Blackledge, D/Phil (1999) York, is the author of Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left (2004) and Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History (2006).Neil Davidson is the author of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (2000) and the Deutscher Prize winning Discovering the Scottish Revolution (2003).

"Paul Blackledge and Neil Davidson have [...] done a great service to the left in putting together Alasdair MacIntyre’s Engagement with Marxism." – Tyler Zimmer, in: International Socialist Review 80 (November-December 2011)"Blackledge and Davidson have provided a real service in pulling them [the essays] together. They shed welcome light on a particular period of political activity, and on the particular place of Left intellectuals within it. They should certainly be read by students of MacIntyre, and those seeking a handle on the distinctiveness of his work." – Gideon Calder, in: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2 November 2010

• Acknowledgements Introduction: the Unknown Alasdair MacIntyre A Note on Selection and Annotation A Bibliography of Works by Alasdair MacIntyre, 1953–1974 1. Extracts from Marxism: An Interpretation 2. Marxist Tracts 3. On Not Misrepresenting Philosophy 4. The Algebra of the Revolution 5. Notes from the Moral Wilderness 6. Dr. Marx and Dr. Zhivago 7. Marcuse, Marxism and the Monolith 8. The Straw Man of the Age 9. The ‘New Left’ 10. What is Marxist Theory For? 11. From MacDonald to Gaitskell 12. Communism and British Intellectuals 13. Freedom and Revolution 14. Breaking the Chains of Reason 15. Is a Neutralist Foreign Policy Possible? 16.The Man who Answered the Irish Question 17. Culture and Revolution 18. Marxists and Christians 19. Rejoinder to Left Reformism 20. Congo, Katanga and the UNO 21. Sartre as a Social Theorist 22. The Sleepwalking Society: Britain in the Sixties 23. Open Letter to a Right-Wing Young Socialist 24. The New Capitalism and the British Working Class25. C. Wright Mills 26. Going into Europe 27. Prediction and Politics 28. True Voice 29. Trotsky in Exile 30. Labour Policy and Capitalist Planning 31. Marx 32. The Socialism of R.H. Tawney 33. Marxist Mask and Romantic Face: Lukács on Thomas Mann 34. Pascal and Marx: on Lucien Goldmann’s Hidden God 35. Recent Political Thought 36. Herbert Marcuse 37. How Not to Write About Stalin 38. How to Write About Lenin – and How Not To 39. The Strange Death of Social Democratic England 40. In Place of Harold Wilson? 41. Marxism of the Will 42. Mr Wilson’s Pragmatism 43. Tell Me Where You Stand on Kronstadt 44. Irish Mythologies 45. Sunningdale: a ‘Colonial’ Solution 46. Irish Confl icts and British Illusions Epilogue. 1953, 1968, 1995: Three Perspectives References Index