在《共产主义宣言》发表以来的一个半多世纪中，马克思主义一直是现代世界思想乐章的重要主题之一，由于它动员社会力量的能力而成为20世纪历史上一种至关重要的存在，在某些时期成为一种决定性的存在。本书收集了埃里克霍布斯鲍姆从1956—2009年在马克思主义领域所写的许多作品，实质上是对马克思（和不可分开的恩格斯）思想发展及其后世影响的研究。希望本书的出版会帮助读者反思马克思主义和人类在21世纪将会拥有何种未来的问题。埃里克霍布斯鲍姆提供了一种迷人的、有洞见的马克思主义观点，并考察了马克思主义的多种影响：从对贵格会运动到马基雅维利，以及在法国大革命和德国哲学中的渊源。他对马克思主义思想家和核心文本，从恩格斯的《工人阶级的境况》到葛兰西的《狱中札记》再到《共产主义宣言》一一进行了考察，并对过去30年来退却时期的马克思主义进行了分析。通过出色、深刻、有力且广泛的研究，《如何改变世界：马克思和马克思主义的传奇》毫无疑问地向我们展示出：马克思是我们这一世纪的思想家，就像他是过去两个世纪的思想家一样。（Over the past more than 150 years after the "Communist Manifesto" was published, Marxism has always been one of the major themes in the world ideas, and its ability to mobilize social forces has made it become crucial presence in the 20th century and even decisive presence in some periods. This book collects many works by Eric Hobsbawm in 1956-2009, which essentially represent the studies on the development and influence on later generations of Marx's ideas (Engels was indispensable). It is expected that this book will help readers to rethink the question about what future Marxism and mankind will welcome in the 21st century. In this book Eric Hobsbawm provides some attractive, insightful Marxist ideas and studies the multiple influences of Marxism, involving the "Quakers movement" and Machiavelli finds its origin in the France revolution and German philosophy. Here, Eric Hobsbawm examines the ideologists and core works of Marxism from the "Condition of the Working Class in England" by Engel, to the "Prison Notebooks" by Antonio Gramsci and to the "the "Communist Manifesto", and analyzes Marxism over the past three decades when Marxism declined. Through excellent, deep, strong and wide studies, this book undoubtedly shows to us that Marx is still a thinker in this century just as he was in the past two centuries. ）