Download or read book The General History of Socialism and Social Struggles: Social struggles in antiquity. Social struggles in the Middle Ages. Social struggles and thought written by Max Beer and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the writing of this basic work, the author brought immense scholarship and profound understanding of social history. His deft interweaving of the general pattern of historical development with the details of social struggle enables us to see with great clarity the roots of social revolt and revolutionary ideas, whether in the form o direct political and economic movements or, as has so frequently been the case, in religious dissent.