Criticism
Leszek KoĊakowski wrote a very harsh criticism of Thompson in his 1974 essay "My Correct Views on Everything", picking apart Thompson's left-wing views. Tony Judt considered this rejoinder so authoritative to claim that "no one who reads it will ever take E.P. Thompson seriously again". His portrait of Thompson elicited some protests from readers, and other left-wing journals came to the defense of Thompson.
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