Eric Hobsbawm and Jacques Attali
Articles by Eric Hobsbawm and Jacques Attali
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World Affairs
The new globalisation guru?
- 13 March 2006
In the past week Eric Hobsbawm, the pre-eminent historian and avowed communist, debated the role of Karl Marx in the 21st century with the one-time international banker Jacques Attali. They came to some unlikely conclusions
Ideas
NS Essay - The day when heaven was falling
- 16 September 2002
Eric Hobsbawm saw the October revolution as the central reference point of the political universe. In this exclusive extract from his memoirs, he explains why, even when the crimes of Stalin were exposed, he could not bring himself to break with the Communist Party
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Democracy can be bad for you
- 05 March 2001
All regimes pay lip-service to representative government. But can the "people's will" provide the solutions for the 21st century?
