[lbo-talk] Eagleton Reviews Hobsbawm

Ismail Lagardien ilagardien at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 16 20:01:11 PDT 2011


In 1976, a good many people in the West thought that Marxism had a reasonable case to argue. By 1986, most of them no longer felt that way. What had happened in the meanwhile? Were these people now buried under a pile of toddlers? Had Marxism been unmasked as bogus by some world-shaking new research? Had someone stumbled on a lost manuscript by Marx confessing that it was all a joke?

We are speaking, note, about 1986, a few years before the Soviet bloc crumbled. As Eric Hobsbawm points out in this collection of essays, that wasn’t what caused so many erstwhile believers to bin their Guevara posters. Marxism was already in dire straits some years before the Berlin Wall came down

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n05/terry-eagleton/indomitable

Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration

Elon University Elon, NC 27244

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