tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549928.post111902209357798827..comments2023-09-06T05:30:01.029-04:00Comments on <br><br><center>An Unenviable Situation</center>: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549928.post-1119602628752029492005-06-24T04:43:00.000-04:002005-06-24T04:43:00.000-04:00I love Hobsbawm, I love that fact that he's unrepe...I love Hobsbawm, I love that fact that he's unrepentant about his communism, that he's perfectly validated in his personal stances, that he's sympathetic to his material and rarely barbaric.<BR/><BR/>Same time I'm re-reading here his 'Reflections on Anarchism', he hasn't got much against it other than that it never was able to hold its own against Communists, Facists, or whatever it was facing. At one point he's arguing its all just rehashed marxism and the next he's saying its sainthood: "Admirable, but hopeless ... designed for failure". <BR/><BR/>I think about that a lot.buermannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14876839557540319179noreply@blogger.com