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Quotes from How To Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism — Eric Hobsbawm

1917–2012 United Kingdom

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Unlike the word 'communist', which always signified a programme, the word 'socialist' was primarily analytical and critical.

How To Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism (2011)

Nothing is easier than to see the Christ of the Sermon on the Mount as 'the first socialist' or communist, and though the majority of early socialist theorists were not Christians, many later members of socialists movements have found this reflection useful.

How To Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism (2011)

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