Those unreflecting. They're so... flat. On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Charlie <[email protected]> wrote:
> The unreflecting would have it that England became capitalist because of > "the place of England within an ensemble of class relations existing > inter-societally vis-a-vis the Mongols, the Ottomans, the Chinese and > the Indians. As a 'backward' country on their periphery, England was > able to leapfrog over them through a series of policies that exploited > its geographical position, its military superiority, its access to New > World bullion and other factors." -- Except that feudalism was a corpse > in England by the time of these factors (except of course the geographic > one, which is so unchanging that it explains nothing). > > The question is what broke feudalism in England; see early Rodney Hilton > studies for some answers. But the unreflecting talk as though the Occupy > movement happened several years ago because Bernie Sanders ran for > president in 2016. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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