"First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved."
— Eric Hobsbawm

January 1, 1970

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Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1971), p. 60.