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On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:54:09 -0500 "Richard Levins" <human...@hsph.harvard.edu> writes: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a > message. > ====================================================================== > > > I object most strenuously to attributing Hobsbawm's politics even in > part to his being old! Some of us keep the red flag flying! Dick I don't think that age, has much to do with the political views that Hobsbawm holds, except in the sense that he, like the rest of us, is the product of a particular time and generation. In his case, the generation that became of age politically in the 1930s and 1940s. So his most formative experiences were associated with the Great Depression, the rise and later defeat of fascism, and the rise of the Soviet Union into a world superpower. And in any case, those of views that Hobsbawm has held for decades, as can be seen if one peruses his 1973 book, "Revolutionaries: Contemporary Essays," where he gave his evaluations of the movements of the day, and in which he provided his apologetics for the PCF and other Moscow-oriented CPs. And pretty much from that time onwards, he was closely aligned with the Eurocommunist wing within the CPGB, and as such, would later become a strong supporter of the "modernizers" within the British Labour Party like Neil Kinnock, and then, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. In that regards, its probably useful to look at Hobbsbawm's famous 1978 essay, "The Forward March of Labour Halted?" to get some insight into his later political views. http://www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/collections/mt/pdf/78_09_hobsbawm.pdf Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math > > > > ========================= > Richard Levins > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/farmelantj%40juno.com > ____________________________________________________________ Equifax Special Offer Click to get Unlimited Equifax credit scores & 3 reports & monitoring http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d3316aaee2ff6d2296st05vuc ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
