Re: Why Hobsbawm remained a Communist

[Gary Maclennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The below and his attitude towards the Paris uprisings of 1968 are two
reasons why I won't join any cheer squad for Hobsbawm

His lectures in Belfast at the heiht of the imperialist attacks on the
Catholic working class were nothing less than treachery.  Similarly his
sponsorship of the Irish Revisionists is another count--revolutionary
act.  Truly he did become a Companion of (Bourgeois Imperialist) Honour.

Gary





At 10:45 PM 18/09/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>  Hobsbawm's tendency to disparage any nationalist movement as passing and
> irrational weakens his grasp of parts of the 20th century. In Ascherson's
> view "Eric's Jewishness increased his sensitivity about nationalism. He's
> the original happy cosmopolitan, who's benefited from being able to move
> freely."


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