Alan,
Thanks you I'm glad I am not the only one to fail to find any decent
material on this. Most bourgeois medieval historians seem content
just to describe events, reveal documents and generally avoid any
realm analysis of the nature of the society, and it contrast to now,
and the underlying class forces stuggling within it. And for many
marxist it is merely a prelude to what they really wnat to talk about
the dating of the Brith of Capitalism.
> I can understand your frustration and surprise at the lack of proper
> analysis and understanding of the feudal period to be found in general
> literary works and the more so in socialist literature but if interested you
> will find my socialist contribution to the subject in my work 'Again:The
> national Question' I hope it may be of some assistance for you to "say
> something useful about pre-capitalist societies" namely feudal and slave or
> tribal society.My url> is<http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~dove>,
I've manage to print out some and I will let you know what I think.
> Good luck with your study and I for one do not consider it
> an "odd request" from a socialist.
I meant odd in that it was not a topical or philosophical
questionwhich is more usual on this list. I myself think that it is
actually vital that communist study such societies in order to better
understand the nature of capitalist society (the problem is how to go
about it!).
Thanks, John
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