On EmpireAmerica, War, and Global Supremacy, written by Eric Hobsbawm.
Unreconstructed marxist who has lived through just about everything he's been writing about over his very long life-career.
Vaquero and I have read his works aloud to each other for many years -- coz, well, he's been doing his work for so long. So we haven't read them all to each other. Vaquero, however, who has better eyes than I do, has actually read all the volumes, in sequence, of Hobsbawm's marxist analysis of the history through which he's lived.
An astounding career, and mind.
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Hi there Foxessa, thanks for dropping by my blog.
I haven't read any Hobsbawm, but most leftists in Britain will have heard of him. He was in the old Communist Party for a good deal of his active intellectual and political life. This doesn't necessarily mean he's pro-Stalin incidentally. But other than that, I can't say anything else except his work is generally well regarded.
We regard his work very highly. He's always a high point in the London Review of Books. Hobsbawm is also an excellent jazz journalist.
You have a great blog!
Love, C.
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