Leaving aside the personal abuse, I tend to look at it from the perspective of Hobsawn. I really curious as to why he accepted the ''honour''. In view of his unreconstructed Stalinism I would have thought that he would classify this relic of Feudalism more as a badge of dishonour.

Hobsbawm was heavily reconstructed, you libelous scum.

Are you drunk?

Hobsbawm was a Eurocommunist, liar. Apologize now, liar.

Because you certainly sound like it. That is no way to get that PhD done old chap, is it?

I wouldn't know about Hobsbawm being a eurocommunist, but I would say his early books are quite good.

How did you get your degree? By believing in ghost stories, hating women, and being a dirty smear merchant who lies pathologically? Even your imperialist piece of trash friend Niall Ferguson had nice things to say about Hobsbawm, but I guess you're too low to appreciate a great historian.
Hobsbawm in the 70s was a champion of the Italian CP, which had disavowed M-L completely, and he was advocating for a purge of the militant tendency in the Labour Party. Fulham as usual doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.

Yeah, fulham, what the hell. Even if you thought he was an unreconstructed stalinist (he wasn't) his writings in isolation should be enough to command awe and respect. He is perhaps among the greatest of all historians in the twentieth century. Marxism is a legitimate political position however much you disagree with it and it is crazy to equate him with a terrorist...

I mean, he says things like:

""I have never tried to diminish the appalling things that happened in Russia, though the sheer extent of the massacres we didn't realise. . . . In the early days we knew a new world was being born amid blood and tears and horror: revolution, civil war, famine—we knew of the Volga famine of the early '20s, if not the early '30s. Thanks to the breakdown of the west, we had the illusion that even this brutal, experimental, system was going to work better than the west. It was that or nothing."""

This all escalated very quickly.

Kinda funny that this John Bull (shitter) is calling Hobsbawm a 'terrorist' when he (Fulham) claims Al Qaeda was framed for 9-11.

@friendly. Mea culpa, you are quite right. I let the demons of the Internet get the better of me, apologies.