Gary North explica:
"... Hobsbawm came to Britain as
a refugee from Hitler’s Europe before the war, but, as he said himself, he
wished only to mix with intellectuals. ‘I refused all contact with the suburban
petit bourgeoisie which I naturally regarded with contempt.’ Naturally.. .
.
Eric Hobsbawm took part in
one of the most extraordinary conversations ever on British television. Speaking
in 1994 to the author Michael Ignatieff about the fall of the Berlin Wall five
years earlier, the historian was asked how he felt about his earlier support for
the Soviet Union.
If Communism had achieved
its aims, but at the cost of, say, 15 to 20 million people – as opposed to the
100million it actually killed in Russia and China – would Hobsbawm have
supported it? His answer was a single word: ‘Yes’. . . .
Just imagine what would
happen if some crazed Right-winger were to appear on BBC and say that the Nazis
had been justified in killing six million Jews in order to achieve their aims.
We should be horrified, and consider that such a person should never be allowed
to speak in public again – or at least until he retracted his repellent views
and admitted that he had been culpably, basely, wrong.
Yet the awful thing about
the phenomenon of Eric Hobsbawm is that the exact opposite to this is what
happened..."
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