{"id":4413,"date":"2011-11-06T14:32:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T13:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/2011\/11\/06\/the-age-of-revolution\/"},"modified":"2011-11-06T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T13:32:14","slug":"the-age-of-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/2011\/11\/06\/the-age-of-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/post\/12324496197\/the-age-of-revolution\" target=\"_blank\">lareviewofbooks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>JON WIENER<\/p>\n<p> on a lifelong Communist historian\u2019s<br \/> reconsideration of the revolutionary project. <\/strong> <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lu3yw9VVSS1qhwx0o.jpg\" \/><em>Die Passion Eines Menschen [One Man\u2019s Passion] <\/em>Frans Masereel 1921<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/tUQRcb\" target=\"_blank\">Courtesy of Spencer Museum of Art<\/a> <br \/><strong>Eric Hobsbawm<br \/><em>How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism<\/em><\/strong><br \/> Yale University Press, September 2011. 480 pp.<\/p>\n<p><em>He\u2019s Back!<\/em> cried the headline in <em>The Times<\/em> of London in fall 2008 as global stock markets crashed and banks failed.  The \u201che,\u201d of course, was Karl Marx, who had written 160 years earlier about the periodic \u201ccrises of capitalism.\u201d President Sarkozy of France was photographed reading Marx\u2019s <em>Capital<\/em>, as British Labor MP Tristram Hunt pointed out, and the German edition soon appeared on that country\u2019s best-seller list. Even Pope Benedict XVI praised what he called Marx\u2019s \u201cgreat analytical skill.\u201d This was the point at which Eric Hobsbawm set out to publish a new book about Marx with a putative call to action for a title: <em>How to Change the World<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p> Hobsbawm, who lives and works in London at the ripe old age of 94, is probably the world\u2019s best, and best-known, Marxist historian. His first book, <em>Primitive Rebels<\/em>, appeared in 1959, and his second, <em>The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848<\/em>, in 1962; both were widely read not only on the left but by generations of college students. The first provided an unforgettable account of \u201csocial bandits\u201d in 19th- and 20th-century Italy and Spain, men the law regarded as criminals but who were seen as heroes in their peasant communities; the second conveyed the big picture of sweeping social transformation in Europe. He went on to write more than a dozen vivid and compelling studies of the politics and history of the capitalist world, making him one of the most recognizable Marxist icons today. Tom Stoppard\u2019s 2006 play <em>Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll<\/em> features a young Czech student at a British university arguing about Communist Party politics with his professor, an unrepentant party member who seems a lot like Hobsbawm.<\/p>\n<p> (Full disclosure: Even though I grew up as part of the New Left that dismissed the CP as authoritarian, conservative, and out of touch, Hobsbawm himself has always been a hero of mine. I still remember him at dinner in my kitchen in 1981 after a conference at UC Irvine when the news came that Reagan had been shot. We gathered around the TV and Hobsbawm said matter-of-factly, \u201cI hope it wasn\u2019t a leftist.\u201d Hobsbawm had returned to New York before we found out that John Hinckley\u2019s motivation had not been fomenting revolution but impressing Jodie Foster.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/post\/12324496197\/the-age-of-revolution\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lareviewofbooks: JON WIENER on a lifelong Communist historian\u2019s reconsideration of the revolutionary project. Die Passion Eines Menschen [One Man\u2019s Passion] Frans Masereel 1921Courtesy of Spencer Museum of Art Eric HobsbawmHow to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism Yale University Press, September 2011. 480 pp. He\u2019s Back! cried the headline in The Times of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nouvelles-de-lhistoire","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tumblr_lu3yw9VVSS1qhwx0o.jpg?resize=480%2C400&ssl=1","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tumblr_lu3yw9VVSS1qhwx0o.jpg?resize=480%2C567&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Lyonel Kaufmann","author_link":"https:\/\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/author\/lyonelk\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tumblr_lu3yw9VVSS1qhwx0o.jpg?fit=480%2C567&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rJVM-19b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11749,"url":"https:\/\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/2016\/07\/26\/poster-4-the-womens-peace-crusade-1916-1918\/","url_meta":{"origin":4413,"position":0},"title":"Poster #4: The Women\u2019s Peace Crusade, 1916 \u2013 1918","author":"Lyonel Kaufmann","date":"26 juillet 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Helen Crawfurd: 'For nearly three years the war has gone on, and we women have been afraid, afraid to trust our own judgement, afraid to speak, afraid to act. 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