Word: hobsbawm
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Over the past few decades a handful of historians, Rude, Thompson, Hobsbawm and some others have turned attention to the "people at the bottom." They do not treat working people, peasants, or the "lower classes" as a necessary and incumbent labor force or as the passive victims of prevailing policy. Instead, they are engaged in exploring the varied and manifold historical responses of the people at the bottom to their own condition, the political acts and cultural expressions of the "losers" in history. Escaping the mute parochialism and indifference of many historians, they realize that causes which they portray...
...could find without looking too hard a great many fine Marxist thinkers who observed all of the traditional standards of scholarship in their work, and whose presence would do credit to any university in the world. Men of the calibre of Christopher Hill, Edward Thompson, George Rude, Eric Hobsbawm, Albert Soboul, Maurice Dobb, Louis Althussen, and Herbert Marcuse, to mention only a few from a long list, were being referred...