[lbo-talk] Why people vote

[Marvin Gandall]

Good to see someone else also had the thought. :)  Actually, isn't this 
comment about exchange rather than conflict, which he saw as primarily 
within town and country rather than between them?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tfast" <tfast at yorku.ca>
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Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Why people vote


> Marvin Gandall wrote:
>
>>  It's
>> tempting to say that the history of all hitherto existing society is the
>> history of rural-urban suspicion and conflict, except that class 
>> alliances
>> have often cut across this traditional divide in periods of social 
>> breakdown
>> and unrest.
>>
> Are you chanelling Marx?
>
> The foundation of every division of labour that is well developed, and 
> brought about by the exchange of commodities, is the separation between 
> town and country.  It may be said, that the whole economic history of 
> society is summed up in the movement of this antithesis."
>
> KM VolIChXIVSec4
>
> Travis
>
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