This isn’t just the Hobsbawm thesis, this is how everyone understood things prior to the 60s/70s. During this period the left went from being understood as the radical wing of enlightenment inheritors, to being critics of the enlightenment’s totalizing force.
@stationarymarx Yeah, and his paper on dialectical logic was very influential in pushing other marxists toward being more 'analytic-ish' and less orthodox.
In the 50s, polish marxists tried to push all analytic philosophers away from philosophy and into math. Ironically, their engagement with the analytics ended up resulting in the polish "analytical-linguistic Marxism".