I feel bad for Marx. The guy was an intellectual force against what we now call the whiggish interpretation of history, only for his immediate students to recreate that exact same interpretation from first principles but this time using Marx’s terms.
"Like all great thinkers, there was the Marx who was the prisoner of his social location and the Marx, the genius, who could see from a wider vantage point. The former generalised from British history. The latter inspired a critical conceptual framework of social reality"
"Carlo Ginzburg was and remains a historian who knew how to look oppression in its many forms."
A moving obituary of the late, great Carlo Ginzburg.
https://t.co/BBso8b4WBS
Eric Hobsbawm defined darkness not as a apocalyptic break but as the state where everyone "gets used to living under conditions which should not be tolerated". Getting used to livestream genocide, carpet bombings and now threat of imminent nuclear attack is living in darkness.
My article "Riots could be expected: Toward a global history of protest and reaction at the World Bank" is now officially published in the newest issue of the Journal of Global History - open access! Read for post-Maoist rioters and Robert McNamara lore: https://t.co/RkbpT1nE1G