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Bezig met laden... How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism (2011)door Eric Hobsbawm
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Best to pick and choose, rather than trying to read every essay. But the highs are very high. ( ) You can't fail to be impressed with Hobsbawms reach, or the breadth of his learning. However this collection has the same problem as anything Hosbawm writes "post-1917". His analysis is fatally compromised by his attempts to justify the twists and turns of Soviet foreign policy and the, at times, slavish devotion to the party line.
I normally say of Hobsbawm "he's a great man but…" But you have to take his communism as part of the package. But you must understand how he was shaped by the 1930s before you can appreciate him. I cannot be so even-handed with the airbrushing of atrocity in How to Change the World. The "but" is too big. It overshadows all the good in him
"The ideas of capitalism's most vigorous and eloquent enemy have been enlightening in every era, the author contends, and our current historical situation of free-market extremes suggests that reading Marx may be more important now than ever. Hobsbawm begins with a consideration of how we should think about Marxism in the post-communist era, observing that the features we most associate with Soviet and related regimes--command economies, intrusive bureaucratic structures, and an economic and political condition of permanent was--are neither derived from Marx's ideas nor unique to socialist states. Further chapters discuss pre-Marxian socialists and Marx's radical break with them, Marx's political milieu, and the influence of his writings on the anti-fascist decades, the Cold War, and the post--Cold War period. Sweeping, provocative, and full of brilliant insights, How to Change the World challenges us to reconsider Marx and reassess his significance in the history of ideas." --Publisher's website. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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