Julian

“I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the “obsolete” hand-loom weaver, the “utopian” artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity. Their crafts and traditions may have been dying. Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking. Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies. Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foolhardy. But they lived through these times of acute social disturbance, and we did not. Their aspirations were valid in terms of their own experience…”
― E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class

“It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.”
― Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

“Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.”
― Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age Of Empire 1875-1914

“Nada importa, en la historia, el valor abstracto de una idea. Lo que importa es su valor concreto.”
― José Carlos Mariátegui