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Communist historian EricHobsbawm's 1969 essay "Reflections on Anarchism" (collected in 1973's Revolutionaries , currently in print in a 2001 edition by New Press ) is mostly a by-the-numbers Marxist, largely dismissive take on classical leftist anarchism (and needless to say more than a little befuddled at anarchism's revival at the time); he treats the movement as romantic and quixotic...
... why you get the strong cultural link between guns and liberty.) In 1999, the celebrated historian EricHobsbawm participated in a range of conversations with Italian writer Antonio Polito, subsequently published as On The Edge of The New Century . One of the most striking points Hobsbawm made was that the secular trend of the increasing ability of states to prevent non-state...
I was invited to write a guest post here and so have decided to write about EricHobsbawm’s The Age of Empire – which I see as a good popular history book that reawoke my interest in the period. It’s the 3rd of his series of modern history books (the others being The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital and The Age of Extremes). The key point of the era he is writing about (1875-1914)...
Not untypical I know, but Ken Livingstone's new project, Progressive London is hosting a conference and on the invited platform is Professor EricHobsbawm. For those who are unaware, Hobsbawm is basically an apologist for Stalin. Johann Hari, who's writing I usually vehemently disagree with - has called Hobsbawm "the David Irvine of the left." Meanwhile, in an interview...
... the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, trade union leaders, intellectuals such as EricHobsbawm, artists, cultural practitioners, community activists and city government experts. Progressive London will also campaign to cancel this coming January’s above-inflation fare increase with a Fare Deal campaign. The Mayor has axed over ten major transport projects but announced...
The Telegraph has an article on the day before the US election informing us that globalization and capitalism have run amok and we are now poised for disaster. Don't waste your time, it's full of the usual leftist garbage, with quotes from Markos Moulitsas and EricHobsbawm. But what caught my attention was a comment from Big Jack, he has laid out in plain language why liberalism and...
... the US car industry. For those who missed it, I recommend Edward Stourton's BBC interview with EricHobsbawm, the doyen of Marxist history. "This is the dramatic equivalent of the collapse of the Soviet Union: we now know that an era has ended," said Mr Hobsbawm, still lucid at 91. "It is certainly greatest crisis of capitalism since the 1930s. As Marx and Schumpeter foresaw,...
... to my critique. The first is that the social construction argument as it appears in work like EricHobsbawm and Terence Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition is far too casual in its understanding of the historical processes through which inventions or constructions are assembled and become socially powerful or widely distributed. In this sense, arguing that something was “socially...
Says Gove: "Can we please have an end to fawning interviews with the unrepentant Moscow-liner EricHobsbawm? He is not, as the BBC argued this week, perhaps our greatest living historian. He's an apologist for totalitarianism and when I think of the millions who were killed and tortured in Marxism's name, from the Polish officers shot in Katyn forest to those brave dissidents who endured...
Nicky has been reading and put together this great list of 10 pieces of content that define today’s marketing reality . Rubbsh title - nice list: 1. The Clue Train Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual 2. The State of Social Media 2008 3. EricHobsbawm on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme 4. I believe the children are our future 5. Nudge 6. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us 7. Here Comes Everybody...
The BBC has an interview with EricHobsbawm, who is best described as the pitamah of Marxist historians. He draws parallels from the 1930s and concludes that the biggest collapse of the financial system may lead to a revival of the Right as it did in the aftermath of the great depression. He does have [...]
... John Grant. Apple. BBC. Brazil. China. Cisco. Climate change. Credit crunch. Dove. Economy. EricHobsbawm. GE. Globalisation. Health paradox. IKEA. India. Kodak. Levi. Lynx. Powergen. Prius. Steve Jobs. Trends. Unilever. World of Warcraft. MUSIC Music courtesy of Jakit Patrick from the Podsafe Music Network .
