Eric Hobsbawm Quotes

Eric Hobsbawm — British Historian born on June 08, 1917,

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, CH, PhD, FBA, FRSL was a British Marxist historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism, and nationalism. His best-known works include his trilogy about what he called the "long 19th century" , The Age of Extremes on the short 20th century, and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions"... (wikipedia)

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

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

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.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

Eric Hobsbawm Quotes

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