How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

Resumen del libro

Eric Hobsbawm is professor emeritus, department of history, classics and archaeology, and president, Birkbeck University of London. He lives in London.

"[T]his collection shows [Hobsbawm] is a brilliant writer, erudite critic and, as he approaches his 94th birthday, a joyfully unrepentant communist. . . . [How to Change the World] is a book anyone interested in politics could and should devour. It is charmingly optimistic and constantly lucid, and contains the distilled wisdom of a great thinker, thinking about a great thinker." Amol Rajan, Independent

"Hobsbawm has lived through so much of the political turbulence he portrays that it is easy to fantasize that History itself is speaking here, in its wry, all-seeing, dispassionate wisdom. It is hard to think of a critic of Marxism who can address his or her own beliefs with such honesty and equipoise."-Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books

"Hobsbawm... is as clear and trenchant as ever in How to Change the World."-Bookforum

"This is a book of serious ideas, not of politics."- Ben Wilson, Daily Telegraph

Biografía del autor

Eric J. Hobsbawm (1917-2012) está considerado uno de los grandes historiadores del siglo XX. Fue profesor emérito de Historia social y económica del Birkbeck College, en la Universidad de Londres. Entre sus numerosos libros debe destacarse, sobre todo, a serie formada por La era de la revolución, 1789-1848 (1997) La era del capital, 1848-1875 (1998), La era del imperio, 1875-1914 (1998) e Historia del siglo XX (1998). Sus últimas obras fueron Entrevista sobre el siglo XXI (2000), Años interesantes. Una vida en el siglo XX (2003), Guerra y paz en el siglo XXI (2007) y Cómo cambiar el mundo (2011), todas ellas publicadas por Crítica.