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It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
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writing
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As a means of alleviating poverty, Christian charity was worse than useless, as could be seen in the Papal states, which abounded in it. But it was popular not only among the traditionalist rich, who cherished it as a safeguard against the evil of equal rights... but also among the traditionalist poor, who were profoundly convinced that they had a to crumbs from the rich man's table.
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social-justice
french-history
capitalism
revolution
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Eric Hobsbawm |
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There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our economy on the biosphere and the imperatives of a capitalist market: maximum continuing growth in the search for profit.
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ecology
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Eric Hobsbawm |
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It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. The vast majority of printed works enter a state of suspended animation within a few weeks or years of publication, from which they are occasionally awakened, for equally short periods, by research students.
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Eric Hobsbawm |
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And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question.
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Eric Hobsbawm |
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On the whole, however, it was accepted that money not only talked, but governed. All the industrialist had to get to be accepted among the governors of society was enough money.
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french-revolution
imperialism
economics
capitalism
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Eric Hobsbawm |
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Seventy years after Marx's death, one third of the human race lived under regimes ruled by communist parties which claimed to represent his ideas and realise his aspirations.
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