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Eric Hobsbawm discusses 'How to Change the World' | Socialist History Society | 25 Feb 2011

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  • I feel this video should have been edited before publication.

  • @gamlerik1 what would you have chopped out?

  • @adycousins The phlegm? I did not mean to come across cross. :) I gave my two cents because I love your channel. Please don't stop the uploads. Thank you.

  • Respond to this video... @gamlerik1 Yeah, I considered removing that but he continues to talk through it and it would have meant removing/ hacking his response to the current revolutions in middle east, and as he says "old age is like an obstacle race"... It's partly about what he is saying but also about the physical / emotional aspect of him giving a lecture. My favourite bit is at the end where he listens to the prolonged applause.

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  • 94 years old. Genius.

    

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  • CHECK THOSE F**KING LUGS

  • Saying 20,000,000 dead would have justified the Soviet experiment had it worked. I think it was Camus who said a responsibility to history absolves one of a responsibility towards humanity. Hobsbawm would do well to weigh upon those words.

  • @Bastiat90 what makes him vile?

  • Hehe, i read most of his work and books and this is the first time i hear him speak.

  • @adycousins quite right not to have edited out his physical struggle. I found it moving, and serves to underline the sharpness of his mind at a good old age.

  • @adycousins A legend!Thank you for upload Ady!

  • Great historian, vile man.

  • excellent video, I don't have words to thank you. muchas gracias

  • precisamos de uma legenda em português;

  • "If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth programme, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead, it becomes logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite." - Gary Allen

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