G'day Ken
>Well gee golly! As Habermas hath written and The Bible warns us...
>Talk about a subject self-managing modern society makes no sense to me.
>What is it supposed to mean?
I take it to mean that Habermas has been making a play to get his (not
altogether unimpressive) communicative ratio
at
> capitalism is here to stay rather than the ultimate
> triumph of Justin's
> market socialism.
>
> Yours for analytical clarity...Ken Hanly
>
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> From: Ricardo Duchesne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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dnesday, November 22, 2000 3:24 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:4793] Re: The "unique" English peasantry.
> Any talk about a macro-subject turning the historical process in
> completely new direction is utopian at best. No subject can self-
> manage modern society given its high level of comp
Any talk about a macro-subject turning the historical process in
completely new direction is utopian at best. No subject can self-
manage modern society given its high level of complexity and
systems-differentiation. As Habermas has written, Marx
"overlook[ed] the fact that any modern society,
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Charles Brown wrote:
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> CB: Do you understand "inevitable" in the same sense that Engels and Marx use it in
>The Manifesto when they say ? :
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> "The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class
>is the formatio
Charles Brown wrote:
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> CB: Do you understand "inevitable" in the same sense that Engels and Marx use it in
>The Manifesto when they say ? :
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> "The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class
>is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition
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Charles Brown wrote:
> " "Capitalism was a force that could not
> be denied. Its rise was inevitable at some point or other."
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> CB: Tres interesant. Is the fall of capitalism inevitable at some point or other ?
If this is true, so
Re: Re: The "unique" English peasantry.
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> Charles Brown wrote:
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> > " "Capitalism was a force that could not
> > be denied. Its rise was inevitable at some point or other."
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> >
> > CB: Tres interesa
Charles Brown wrote:
> " "Capitalism was a force that could not
> be denied. Its rise was inevitable at some point or other."
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> CB: Tres interesant. Is the fall of capitalism inevitable at some point or other ?
If this is true, socialism is doomed. The only basis for confide
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Re: Ali Kadri's commentary I would recommend S. K. Sanderson's
Social Transformations, A General Theory of Historical
Development (1995). This book collects data which shows that
"urbanization has been a striking feature of agrarian social growth
ov
Re: Ali Kadri's commentary I would recommend S. K. Sanderson's
Social Transformations, A General Theory of Historical
Development (1995). This book collects data which shows that
"urbanization has been a striking feature of agrarian social growth
over a period of nearly 4,000 years...There is
Although I am not a historian, I have been following
this discussion from a distance. It occurred to me
that a former colleague who is now at Tehran
University wrote a dissertation on the Medieval
Islamic city. What struck me in that was the huge
number of people in those cities. For instance in
F
The important question we need to ask, then, is whether England
had a "unique" group of peasant holders. A full answer to this
question would require a comparative study of the world
peasantries.
But we have enough research on the peasantries of England and
France to say that: 1) through t
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