Shane Mage writes:
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> On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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>> Barrington Moore coined the term "catonism" to denote the lip service to
>> "peasant values and way of life threatened by modern decadence" paid by
>> the most reactionary elements of society (landowners) in times of
>> systemic transformation or modernization of the economy.
>
> An absolutely brilliant coinage.
> The Cato Institute, incidentally, is named for the grandson-suicide, who
> was even more reactionary than his forbear.
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Wish I had time to reread Barrington Moore. Is Social Origins of Democracy
and Dictatorship still on the curriculum?