Eric Hobsbawm R.I.P (1917-2012)

[Tetro Kornbluth]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19786929

A big loss....

[Paleobrazilian]

Important historian, but I cannot fully respect someone who says Stalin's genocide was something that "had to be done".

May he rest in peace.

[Lief 🗽]

I mean, you knew it was coming (dude was in his 90s), but still really sad.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Important historian, but I cannot fully respect someone who says Stalin's genocide was something that "had to be done".

That's... er... not so at all.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I mean, you knew it was coming (dude was in his 90s), but still really sad.

Yeah. He was still active until remarkably recently, of course.

[minionofmidas]

Googling it, I can find what it's roughly about but not the exact quote with content. Someone have it?

[Antonio the Sixth]

He's been cited several times in classes I've taken. Not very familiar with his thought, but he was certainly an important thinker. RIP.

[© tweed]

reignites a latent fear of mine that Noam will fall soon.

[freefair]

An interesting thinker with deeply unsavory aspects. Shameless apologist for extremist leftism.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Shameless apologist for extremist leftism.

Are you thinking of the Eric Hobsbawm who came up with such a damning critique of the Hard Left in the 1980s that Kinnock was able to use it without modification (and with Hobsbawm's wholehearted approval) as a stick to beat them with, or a different Eric Hobsbawm?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Talking of which, you can find many of them here: http://www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/home_index.htm

Look under Internet Archive and then Marxism Today and search for his surname. Some good stuff there.

[minionofmidas]

Shameless apologist for extremist leftism.

Are you thinking of the Eric Hobsbawm who came up with such a damning critique of the Hard Left in the 1980s that Kinnock was able to use it without modification (and with Hobsbawm's wholehearted approval) as a stick to beat them with, or a different Eric Hobsbawm?

Vicious attacks on Trots and Anarchists are something Stalinists, the Daily Mail and the Labour Right should naturally agree on, don't you think?