[lbo-talk] Conspiracies Driving Force of History (reply to Carrol Cox)

[Alexander Nekvasil]

Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:


> What makes me sad is that conspiracy theories such as
> Joseph Wanzala's _lead away_ from awareness of the
> centers of power.

The Roman historians, otherwise class struggle theorists
through and through, argued that conspiracies become the
driving force of history when and if the class struggle
ceases, as it did with the victory of the oligarchy in
the late republic.  From then on, Roman history develops
as a sequence of conspiracies, in which no centers of
power apart from the conspiracies themselves can be
located.

cheers
AN