Re: Markets and technology and Shamanism

Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:29:35 +0000
MA&NG Jones (majones@netcomuk.co.uk)

I am humbled that anyone took that remark seriously (but not as humbled
as Immanuel Wallerstein ought to be). No, the era of creating world
religions is over -- it began with the invention and generalisation of
coinage, about the time of Periclean Athens, and has always been
associated with temples and abstract things like commodity-relations,
abstract space and time and other notions deriving from
commodity-fetishism one way or another (Moses Finley, q.v.).Obviously
the epoch of world-religions is coming to an end together with commodity
production itself. That was my point, in fact.

Nikolai S. Rozov wrote:
>
> just a small remark to:
>
> >But the World Systems
> > model has to make one more giant leap, to
> > achieve the status of world religion.
>
> God save w-s model and any other scientific theory from
> this honour.

-- 
Regards,
Mark Jones
majones@netcomuk.co.uk

-- 
Regards,
Mark Jones
majones@netcomuk.co.uk