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That's a very facile take on a complex thinker: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/17/eric-hobsbawm-mi5-communism-stalin-historian-private-papers https:

• bitwize 7y ago
  And yet, had he been accused of supporting, say, Mussolini, or had he a lifelong fondness for rightist nationalism, he would have been milkshake-ducked into irrelevance today. Nuance, per Marcuse, is something we can only afford for the left.
  • naravara 7y ago
    >And yet, had he been accused of supporting, say, Mussolini, or had he a lifelong fondness for rightist nationalism, he would have been milkshake-ducked into irrelevance today. Heidegger would like a word
• robk 7y ago
  I find it hard to take any critique of socialism seriously when it's from The Guardian.