[lbo-talk] Barrington Moore on Catonism

[Shane Mage]

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> On Apr 21, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Dissenting Wren wrote:
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>> From time to time I've wondered why Barrington Moore's term,  
>> "Catonism" never caught on as an epithet for certain kinds of  
>> antiliberalism.

"Catonism" always meant the most obstinate, bloody minded,  
reactionary, authoritarianism.
But the term went out of use some 2,000 years ago.

Shane Mage

"scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities
that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying  
attention to"