Will have to add "Communist Hypothesis" to my reading list. Seems a point that is made too often, and I do yawn when people bring up the 'end of history francis f etc. etc.' , but an ideology is not made obsolescent when it loses political power. The class that put it into action still exists. Nor do classes often 'win' in their first moments of consciousness and political awakening. It often takes hundreds of years and a process of conflict, victory, and subsequent defeat, rinse and repeat for a class to even outline a working program for systematic political change. E.G. how long it took burghers in medieval/early modern Europe to go from "city and guild privileges matter!!!11111!!" to " I will murder the whole royal family" was quite a long and bloody process.
Will have to add "Communist Hypothesis" to my reading list. Seems a point that is made too often, and I do yawn when people bring up the 'end of history francis f etc. etc.' , but an ideology is not made obsolescent when it loses political power. The class that put it into action still exists. Nor do classes often 'win' in their first moments of consciousness and political awakening. It often takes hundreds of years and a process of conflict, victory, and subsequent defeat, rinse and repeat for a class to even outline a working program for systematic political change. E.G. how long it took burghers in medieval/early modern Europe to go from "city and guild privileges matter!!!11111!!" to " I will murder the whole royal family" was quite a long and bloody process.