Thе history of origin of the British working class and popular culture in E. P. Thompson's neomarxist theory

The article analyses E.P. Thompson's Neomarxist concept concerning the origin of the British working class and its culture - «the most outstanding popular culture of England». In the course of self-creation the English working class «with his own hand» created his own environment which showed a new «popular culture» to the world. Thus, Thompson sends a challenge to the "old" Marxism considering history of capitalism as predetermined inevitable changes of ways of manufacture and social formations.