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Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm war ein marxistisch orientierter britischer Universalhistoriker mit sozial- und wirtschaftshistorischen Schwerpunkten. Weltweit bekannt wurde er mit seinem dreibändigen Werk zur Geschichte des „langen 19. Jahrhunderts“ und dem Ergänzungsband zum „kurzen 20. Jahrhundert“ sowie mit Überlegungen zu erfundener Tradition und Studien über die Arbeiterbewegung. Kritiker werfen ihm vor, er habe sich zu spät und zu wenig vom Stalinismus distanziert. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Juni 1917 – 1. Oktober 2012   •   Andere Namen Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm
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“Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.”

Eric Hobsbawm buch The Age of Extremes

Quelle: The Age of Extremes (1992), p. 414.

“Banditry is freedom, but in a peasant society few can be free. most are shackled by double chains of lordship and labour, one reinforcing the other.”

Quelle: Bandits (1969), Chapter Two
Kontext: Banditry is freedom, but in a peasant society few can be free. most are shackled by double chains of lordship and labour, one reinforcing the other. For what makes peasants the victim of authority is not as much their economic vulnerability - indeed they are as often as not virtually self sufficient - as their mobility.

“Uncertainty and unpredictability impended. Compass needles no longer had a North, maps became useless.”

Eric Hobsbawm buch The Age of Extremes

Quelle: The Age of Extremes (1992), Chapter Eleven, Cultural Revolution, p.338-339
Kontext: The old moral vocabulary of rights and duties, mutual obligations, sin and virtue, sacrifice, conscience, rewards, and penalties, could no longer be translated into the new language of desired gratification. Once such practices and institutions were no longer accepted as part of a way of ordering society that linked people to each other and ensured social cooperation and reproduction, most of their capacity to structure human social life vanished. They were reduced simply expressions of individuals' preferences, and claims that the law should recognize the supremacy of these preferences. Uncertainty and unpredictability impended. Compass needles no longer had a North, maps became useless.

“My object is to understand ad explain why things turned out the way they did, and how they hang together.”

Eric Hobsbawm buch The Age of Extremes

Introduction
The Age of Extremes (1992)
Kontext: My object is to understand ad explain why things turned out the way they did, and how they hang together. For anyone of my age-group who has lived through all or most of the Short Twentieth Century this is inevitably also a autobiographical endeavor. We are talking about, amplifying (and correcting) our own memories. And we are talking as men and women of a particular time and place, involved, in various ways, in its history as actors in its dramas - however insignificant our parts - as observers of our times and, not least, as people whose views of the century have been formed by what we have come to see as its crucial events.

“Words are witnesses which often speak louder than documents.”

Introduction
The Age of Revolution (1962)
Kontext: Words are witnesses which often speak louder than documents. Let us consider a few English words, which were invented or gained their modern meanings, substantially in the period of sixty years with which this volume deals. They are such words as 'industry', 'industrialist', 'factory,' middle class,' 'working class,' and 'socialism.' They include 'aristocracy,' as well as 'railway,' 'liberal' and 'conservative' as political terms, 'nationality,'scientist,' and 'engineer,' 'proletariat,' and (economic) 'crisis'.

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

Mapping the Nation (Mappings Series) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=39IHUaOV9fUC&pg=PA263 (13 November 2012), p. 263.

“The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.”

Eric Hobsbawm buch The Age of Extremes

Quelle: The Age of Extremes (1992), p. 422.

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