Abstract
Eric Hobsbawm died in 2012, celebrated as a great Marxist historian. This reputation overrode criticisms of his persistent refusal to radically break with Stalinism. This essay revisits a left-wing critique—by two former Communist Party members who left the Party in 1956 after Khrushchev's ‘secret speech’ and the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution—which shows how Hobsbawm's politics influenced his history. It argues for collective work to establish a new theoretical basis for a Marxist approach to history.
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