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.
>
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Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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