A little bit of rivalry as well between Thompson and Hobsbawm. Eric Hobsbawm’s Marxism was more classical while E P Thompson’s was more innovative. Thompson found Eric ‘not sufficiently critical of Marxism and above all of Communism’, while Eric found Thompson ‘a little bit too polemical’
Georges Haupt international round table discussions on social history 1974
(From Richard J Evans 2019 biography of Eric Hobsbawm)
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