Re: Theories of underdevelopment

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From: Tiny Human Ferret
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:53

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sinister wrote:
> <royls@telus.net> wrote in message news:416b7826.4909901@news.telus.net...
> 
>>On 11 Oct 2004 16:48:24 -0700, fbonsignore@beethoven.com (Fabrizio J.
>>Bonsignore) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>royls@telus.net wrote in message 
>>>news:<4169a3b7.20177640@news.telus.net>...
>>>
>>>>On 9 Oct 2004 19:20:20 -0700, fbonsignore@beethoven.com (Fabrizio J.
>>>>Bonsignore) wrote:
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>>>>As for Europe`s development it was a _steady_ affair since the
>>>>>breaking down of the Roman Empire,
>>>>
>>>>False.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Nothing changed much for 1000 years,
>>
>>Wrong.  The end of Roman power in the West created the anarchist
>>utopia otherwise known as feudalism.  This system gradually evolved
>>over the centuries into the monarchical nation-states of the early
>>modern era.
> 
> 
> In what precise way was feudalism anarchistic?  Or are you making a dig in 
> the opposite direction, that many modern so-called libertarians are really 
> adherents of feudalism in disguise?

Since they're mostly a pack of wolves agitating for the repeal of laws 
prohibiting the eating of sheep, I'd say "yes, that is what he meant," 
and I would agree.


-- 
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may
often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,
of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.
                   --Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

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