Eric Hobsbawm - Revolution Quotes

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

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The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

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It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform

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