>Professor Eric Hobsbawm:
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/3366575/Revenge-of-the-Left-across-the-world.html>
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http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7585/work.htmlHow refreshing to see Hobsbawm identified as a Marxist (which is undoubtedly accurate) As a history major at a very good school with a very good history department in the 60s I read at least three of his books and heard him speak twice and never ever heard him spoken of as a Marxist. Since that time, of course, I've read his stuff with a little more perspective {s}
Charles Hankey
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- Thomas Hardy
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