It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of ca….

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be jus….

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does..

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tel….

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and histor….

(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an outlaw for ten years….

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved..

Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism….

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production..

N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a bel….

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the ….

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports..

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market..

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of thei….

He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its maj….

Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the t….

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently ….

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative..

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system.

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle..

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy.