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Quotes from historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) Joined April 2020

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5 years ago

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5 years ago

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

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5 years ago

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

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Nothing is easier than to see the Christ of the Sermon on the Mount as 'the first socialist' or communist, and though the majority of early socialist theorists were not Christians, many later members of socialists movements have found this reflection useful.

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5 years ago

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

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5 years ago

[May Day] it is important, because it demonstrates the historic power of grassroots thought and feeling, and illuminates the way men and women who, as individuals, are inarticulate, powerless and count for nothing can nevertheless leave their mark on history.

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5 years ago

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved

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5 years ago

The poor, multiplying and under-employed, wanted more “development” not less

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5 years ago

Seventy years after Marx’s death, one third of the human race lived under regimes ruled by communist parties which claimed to represent his ideas and realise his aspirations

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6 years ago

Zero growth under existing conditions would freeze the present inequalities between the world’s countries, a situation more tolerable to the average inhabitant of Switzerland than to the average inhabitant of India.