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E. P. Thompson

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The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.


— E. P. Thompson


#first #missiles #second

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.


— E. P. Thompson


#decades #liberties #once #ours #state

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.


— E. P. Thompson


#convinced #i #i am #process #terminal

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.


— E. P. Thompson


#forced #i #into #leadership #much

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.


— E. P. Thompson


#become #coming #dig #garden #going

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.


— E. P. Thompson


#i #nato #side #talk #weapons

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.


— E. P. Thompson


#experts #many #measures #organization #overdue

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.


— E. P. Thompson


#balance #be real #me #metaphysical #nuclear

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.


— E. P. Thompson


#geneva #start #voices






About E. P. Thompson

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Did you know about E. P. Thompson?

Thompson was born in Oxford to Methodist missionary parents: His father Edward John Thompson (1886-1946) was a poet and admirer of the Nobel-prize winning poet Tagore. Thompson was one of the principal intellectuals of the Communist Party in Great Britain. Criticism
Leszek Kołakowski wrote a very harsh criticism of Thompson in his 1974 essay "My Correct Views on Everything" picking apart Thompson's left-wing views.

He also publiE. P. Thompsond influential biographies of William Morris (1955) and (posthumously) William Blake (1993) and was a prolific journalist and essayist. Thompson played a key role in the first New Left in Britain in the late 1950s.

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