I don't think it would be hard to find documents showing commonalities in culture, for instance, that all of these cultures are predominantly Christian of various sorts, that they have institutions called "monogamous marriage" and so forth, that they have a working class at all.
Why is there this resistance to the idea, which I think is so obvious it doesn't need stating, that people who live in the same era and general culture have overlapping understandings of the world? It's not like liberals came from Earth, socialists from Uranus and fascists from the fourth planet of Aldebaran.
--- On Fri, 7/25/08, moominek at aol.com <moominek at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> Sorry, I didn't understand your use of
> "milieu". If "early 20th century
> europe" is a mileu (in singular!), then your thesis is
> not wrong. But to show that, you should look for documents
> showing the commonalites between "early 20th century
> european working class culture" in England, Germany,
> Italy, Russia, France, Bulgaria, ... - and "early
> 20th century european rural culture" in all these
> countries and "early 20th century high culture"
> and so on and on: I think there are not so many
> commonalities out of the inner circle of the MMM: The Magic
> Mountain Milieu.
>
> Sebastian
>
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