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 historians are the people who produce it.
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. - Eric Hobsbawm
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
- Eric Hobsbawm
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… - Eric Hobsbawm
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…
(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… - Eric Hobsbawm
(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…
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… - Eric Hobsbawm
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…
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it. - Eric Hobsbawm
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative. - Eric Hobsbawm
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. - Eric Hobsbawm
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… - Eric Hobsbawm
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism…
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be jus… - Eric Hobsbawm
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be jus…
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