[lbo-talk] "Western Civilization"

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 27 16:50:54 PDT 2008


At 02:28 PM 3/27/2008, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


>Oh, yeah, absolutely. The alleged continuity is the invention of the
>Renaissance, U.S. Founding fathers, Romantics, and Neo-Cons, each
>with different reasons for reaching back into a mythical past to
>justify some act of usurpation.

But there's also the Renaissance of the 12th century and New Rome (Constantinople). The continuity was never completely torn asunder.



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