Quotes by : Eric Hobsbawm

It rests on the attempt since the 1970s to translate a pathological degeneration of the principle of....

The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because....

So far as I am aware no leader of a party of the European left in the past twenty-five years has declared....

More history than ever is today being revised or invented by people who do not want the real past, but....

There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our economy....

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions....

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the....

And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer,....

Once again it is evident that even between major crises, ‘the market’ has no answer to the major....

It is an irony of history that the first and greatest success of scientists in persuading governments....

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for....