dlj,
Just curious. Who are the "cycle crackpots": Ibn Khaldoun, Nicholo Machiavelli,
Giambattista Vico, Oswald Spengler, Toynbee... Would be most interested
in a little more details. Could you also please enlighten on your special
dislike of Swedenborg. "Other than Marx, who has had large visions ?"
Amusing comment considering the state of Marxism after the collapse
of millenial communism in Russia. Deadly visions ?
Bertil Haggman
bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se
>So far the first model out of the gate, "World System(s)", has all the
>appearances of a vulgar Marxism writ large, as though we were simply seeing
>the level of detail that Marx used in writing about Europe applied to the
>wider world of Lenin's trade imperialism. This is perhaps natural. Other
>than Marx, who has had large visions? Well, there's Gibbon, there's a bunch
>of cycle crackpots, and that's about it, assuming we ignore the Aquinases
>and Swedenborgs.