[lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 12:44:17 PDT 2010


Matthias Wasser

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> ^^^^
> CB: I thought the Enlightenment/Reformation was a reflection in
> superstructure of the revolution in base/infrastructure, i.e. the
> bourgeois revolution overthrowing the feudal mode of production in
> Europe.
>

I'm afraid I don't see the contradiction.

^^^^^ CB: Fear not. History should not be taught primarily as a series of Big Men and their Big Ideas, like Jefferson, Calvin and Aquinas, but as masses of people in classes struggling (smile).



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