>
> >You can't build a socialist society
> >without the technology and social organization that capitalism has
> >produced. In fact, you couldn't even imagine one.
>
>I think Colonel Rainbow could imagine it in 1647. I think if one must
>choose a moment when Britain slipped into modernity it is the moment of the
>Putney debates.
>
Rainsborough, I think. If you want to go back to 1381, you could invoke John Ball. But Doug's point is a modern socialist society. jks
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