Archive for Marxism

“The real Karl Marx”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 6 June 2013 by delclem

marx Kopie

“In many ways, Jonathan Sperber suggests, Marx was ‘a backward-looking figure,’ whose vision of the future was modeled on conditions quite different from any that prevail today (Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life – Liveright, 648 pp., $35.00)

>review (c) NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, 2013

Eric Hobsbawm 1917-2012

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on 3 October 2012 by delclem


“The British Marxist historian (with Central European roots) reclaimed and popularised the value of popular culture – something so integral to our lives
today it seems bizarre it was ever denigrated.” >Arts Blog entry
>Obituary Hobsbawm
>Panel: the Hobsbwam legacy
(with Niall Ferguson, David Priestland, Catherine Merridale & Roy Foster)

All texts (c) THE GUARDIAN 2012