Eric Hobsbawm Quote

First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.


Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1971, p. 60

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First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.