On Jul 25, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
The only problem is that all these are commonalities of "early 20th century europe" with the European cultures prevailing at any time from the eighth to the twentyfirst century (at least if "working class" is defined by the common-sense division of working and privileged classes rather than as a "proletarian" class of wage-laborers, in which case all the "commonalities" would merely apply for the fourteenth to the twentyfirst centuries).
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos