[lbo-talk] "Western Civilization"

[Dennis Claxton]

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.