In defence of history
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1390980,00.html
It is fashionable to say 'my truth is as valid as yours'. But it's not
true
Eric Hobsbawm
Saturday January 15, 2005
The Guardian
"The philosophers so far have only interpreted the world: the point is
to change it." Marxist history has developed along parallel lines,
corresponding to the two halves of Marx's famous thesis. Most
intellectuals who became Marxists from the 1880s on, including
historians, did so because they wanted to change the world in
association with the labour and socialist movements. This motivation
remained strong until the 1970s, before a massive political and
ideological reaction against Marxism began. Its main effect has been to
destroy the belief that the success of a particular way of organising
human societies can be predicted and assisted by historical analysis.
Eric Hobsbawm
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