bokway said...

bokway at 05:33 PM JST - 25th December

"Or were pre-industrial revolution people more altruistic and the industrial revolution turned people away from being altruistic into money-grubbers? I'll go see what Weber wrote."

Borscht - well done. You are quite right:altruism was destroyed by the emergence of the market economy and its need for a new doctrine -…

Posted in Marx's 'Das Kapital' comic finds new fans in Japan at 05:33 PM JST - 25th December
bokway at 02:13 PM JST - 24th December

Borscht - Thanks for responding. I can't accept your premise that people cannot change or that they haven't done so in the last 20,000 years. Clearly for you the agrarian, industrial and democratic revolutions never occured or had no real consequence for human development? Hmn . . .and you were…

Posted in Marx's 'Das Kapital' comic finds new fans in Japan at 02:13 PM JST - 24th December
bokway at 03:16 PM JST - 23rd December

Borscht - never let a good story get in the way of the facts, eh? Omarbabilon is equally lop-sided. Marx wasn't a 'Marxist' because he saw the fatal flaws in all systems theories: the 'vanguard' must eventually wither away along with the State, leading to a true 'dictatorship of the…

Posted in Marx's 'Das Kapital' comic finds new fans in Japan at 03:16 PM JST - 23rd December