Historian Eric Peterson remained loyal to Marxism until his death at 95 . Timothy Snyder says Hobsbawm 's beliefs formed as a man living in 1930s . The story had a logic , but it also required an element of faith . However : Hobsbawm rejected Soviet state that no longer exists , and other dead ideas . Wrong as was , Snyder writes , it did embody certain ideas that are valid today .
Historian Eric Peterson remained loyal to Marxism until his death at 95 . Timothy Snyder says Hobsbawm 's beliefs formed as a man living in 1930s . However : Hobsbawm rejected Soviet state that no longer exists , and other dead ideas . Wrong as was , Snyder writes , it did embody certain ideas that are valid today .