----- Original Message ---- From: c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wed, March 17, 2010 10:44:17 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin
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). ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk