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It is wonderful to find something which further radicalizes me, and I am happy to say that this book has been such a something. This book has served largely as my introduction to Marxism, and there were many times throughout this read where I set the book aside and just thought about my values, my ideals, and my political conceptions. I would highly recommend this book.

Seeing as I have a background in neither Marxism nor history, I cannot offer a ton of criticism on the approaches of this book. It suffers from certain turns of phrase and framings which (to my knowledge) have been more recently replaced and reconstructed. My primary qualm, though, is Harman's frequent deployment of the adjective backwards. There are places in which I believe it's employment makes sense such as when speaking directly of progressions (e.g. stages of capitalism), but from my perspective many of Harman's uses of it could certainly be better phrased.

Despite this, I think that this book is very good. Despite its intimidating length, Harman was able to keep it interesting, and I am very glad to have read it.

My sincere thanks to the employee at Autumn Leaves who put this on their recommendation shelf.