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Eminent Marxist historian Hobsbawm dies aged 95
Reuters ^ | October 1, 2012 | Isla Binnie

Posted on 10/01/2012 8:03:22 AM PDT by C19fan

Renowned British left-wing historian Eric Hobsbawm, whose writing influenced students and politicians across Europe, died in a London hospital on Monday aged 95, the BBC reported.

He died in the early hours of the morning in London's Royal Free Hospital, where he was being treated for pneumonia.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; History
KEYWORDS: communism; hobsbawn; marxism
I wonder if Hobsbawm is happy he is getting to see his buddies Marx, Lenin and Stalin in hell.
1 posted on 10/01/2012 8:03:31 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Well at least he will have company....


2 posted on 10/01/2012 8:06:31 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: C19fan

hmmm wonder if Obummer will order flags at half staff today


3 posted on 10/01/2012 8:10:47 AM PDT by crusadersoldier
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To: C19fan

Another famous historian died on Sept. 26—Eugene D. Genovese, aged 82. Genovese had been a Marxist but later became a conservative.


4 posted on 10/01/2012 8:10:55 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

em·i·nent (m-nnt)
adj.
1. Of high rank, station, or quality; noteworthy: eminent members of the community.
2. Outstanding, as in character or performance; distinguished: an eminent historian. See Synonyms at noted.
3. Towering or standing out above others; prominent: an eminent peak.

RFLMAO


5 posted on 10/01/2012 8:16:43 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (ZERO DARK THIRTY (coming soon to an embassy near you))
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To: Verginius Rufus

em·i·nent (m-nnt)
adj.
1. Of high rank, station, or quality; noteworthy: eminent members of the community.
2. Outstanding, as in character or performance; distinguished: an eminent historian. See Synonyms at noted.
3. Towering or standing out above others; prominent: an eminent peak.

RFLMAO


6 posted on 10/01/2012 8:16:49 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (ZERO DARK THIRTY (coming soon to an embassy near you))
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To: C19fan
I wonder if Hobsbawm is happy he is getting to see his buddies Marx, Lenin and Stalin

He probably has a 4 o'clock cribbage game scheduled with Howard Zinn...


7 posted on 10/01/2012 8:18:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: C19fan

May he churn in hell looking up at the 100,000,000 people murdered within 70 years by his ideology.


8 posted on 10/01/2012 8:23:36 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
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To: C19fan

Every time a Marxist dies, an angel gets its’ wings.


9 posted on 10/01/2012 8:24:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: stocksthatgoup

Yeah, the words eminent and Marxist should never be used in the same sentence.


10 posted on 10/01/2012 8:27:47 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Conservatism didn't magically show up in Romney's heart in 2012. You can't force what isn't in you.)
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To: C19fan

Eminent Marxist historian Hobsbawm dies aged 95

should read:

Long-forgotten Marxist historical revisionist Hobsbawm dies aged 95

There, that's better.

11 posted on 10/01/2012 8:40:45 AM PDT by Publius Maximus (It was a nice Republic, while it lasted.)
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Let’s hope he died painfully and without dignity as do so many in Britain’s OsamaObamaCare hospitals.My favorite recent story is about an older person who died of dehydration in one of their hospitals.I guess they have death panels there,too.


12 posted on 10/01/2012 8:43:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive!)
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To: Publius Maximus

You cannot be a Marxist and have clue about history. Not really, because it’s all filtered through the fictional construct of “dialectical materialism” and an evil-eye prism of class warfare which won’t allow any inconvenient facts to interfere that might cause Marxism to appear in college textbooks as ridiculous, self-contradictory and stupid as it is in reality.


13 posted on 10/01/2012 8:44:23 AM PDT by Publius Maximus (It was a nice Republic, while it lasted.)
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To: Publius Maximus

Some newspapers identify Hobsbawm as just some vanilla socialist.


14 posted on 10/01/2012 8:47:17 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Publius Maximus
should read:
Long-forgotten Marxist historical revisionist Hobsbawm dies aged 95

There, that's better.

Long-forgotten Marxist historical revisionist Hobsbawm dies aged 95

Autopsy report cites surname as cause of death

15 posted on 10/01/2012 8:58:20 AM PDT by verum ago (Hey UN: Molon Labe applies to our dollars, too!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Let’s remember that this monster had no qualms about the mass murder of millions if would serve to bring about the communist Utopia of his dreams. He said as much in an interview a while back.


16 posted on 10/01/2012 9:26:28 AM PDT by Noumenon (“...the other side wants everything in America to be free, except us.” Paul Ryan)
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To: Noumenon
We nearly had a Communist President. His name was Henry A Wallace, vice president under FDR. If FDR had died a year earlier we would have had a Communist President.

Dick Morris has an excellent video on it: http://www.dickmorris.com/how-we-almost-had-a-communist-president-dick-morris-tv-history-video/

One note, Wallace was a member of the Progressive Party and also endorsed by the Communist Party of that time.

Isn't it interesting that Obama is such a Progressive these days and Chavez is endorsing him.

17 posted on 10/01/2012 9:39:12 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: C19fan

So long, lefty! Tell Marx and the devil hello for us.


18 posted on 10/01/2012 10:08:42 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: C19fan

Hogsspawn wasn’t just a Marxist he was an unrepentant Stalinist even after the Russians rejected Stalin.


19 posted on 10/01/2012 10:33:51 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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Eminent Marxist historian Hobsbawm dies aged 95

I guess it's true that only the good die young... How old is Soros, now?

20 posted on 10/01/2012 12:30:22 PM PDT by America_Right (I am the 53%. Please get out of the cart and help me pull for a while.)
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