The history of humanity written by the British Marxist Chris Harman at the turn of the millennium - progressing from primitive communist societies and the Neolithic Revolution to the year 2000 - is an impressive and accessible narrative about the emergence and movements to overcome class societies. It is, in the truest sense, a world history in which Harman resists the usual Eurocentrism and spans the arc from Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica through Asia to Europe, highlighting the similarities in the respective developments. This is based on a methodological approach that examines how society is shaped by the interplay of technological development, new forms of division of labor, class structures, and class struggles. In Harman's world history, there are no "great men.".