Marxism is not a body of finished theories and discoveries, but a process of development; that Marx's own thought, for instance, went on developing throughout his life.
There are no shortcuts to marxism: neither the appeal to Lenin against Stalin, nor to Marx, nor to the young Marx against the older Marx. There is only hard, and long, and in the present circumstances perhaps inconclusive work.
Eric Hobsbawm
1917 - 2012
