[lbo-talk] What are you reading now?

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Sep 18 09:08:54 PDT 2007



>>> "Tayssir John Gabbour"

* Guns, Germs and Steel - Diamond

I like Harry Potter, yet I'm suspicious of this book because of

the "hype"... Go figure.

^^^^^^^^

CB: I think Diamond does a good job of popularizing some basic anthropology and history, such as "civilization"/class society arises in part based on the material surpluses at the origin of agriculture. But Diamond fails mention that he is plagerizing _The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State_ and archaeology works. He acts like he thought up these theories himself.



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