How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011 by Eric Hobsbawm. Little, Brown, 470 pp., £25, January 2011, 978 1 4087 0287 1Show More In 1976, a good many people in the West thought that Marxism had a reasonable case to argue. By 1986, most of them no longer felt that way. What had happened in the meanwhile? Were these people now buried under a pile of toddlers? Had Marxism been unmasked as
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