Re: Theories of underdevelopment

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From: royls
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:40

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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:02:52 GMT, "sinister" <sinister@nospam.invalid>
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?

When Roman power vanished from the Western Empire in the 5th C, there
was no government.  It was literal anarchy.  Wealthy landholders with
private armies stepped into the vacuum, and feudalism began.
Feudalism was precisely the kind of government-free, contract-based
societal system modern anarcho-dreamers like David Friedman, Murray
Rothbard et al advocate.

-- Roy L

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