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There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our econ...

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How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011

It is an irony of history that the first and greatest success of scientists in persuading government...

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How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011

And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answe...

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How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011

Once again it is evident that even between major crises, ‘the market’ has no answer to the major pro...

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How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011

It rests on the attempt since the 1970s to translate a pathological degeneration of the principle of...

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How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011

So far as I am aware no leader of a party of the European left in the past twenty-five years has dec...

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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are ...

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The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly be...

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The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption f...

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But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions...

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More history than ever is today being revised or invented by people who do not want the real past, b...

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Eric Hobsbawm

Historian

Born: 1917-06-09

Died: 2012-10-01

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, CH, FRSL, FBA (9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British Marxist historian and author and a leading theorist of the Communist Party of Great Britain (1920–1991), and former president of Birkbeck College, University of London.More