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I acknowledge my debt to Marxian thought without apology.
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Man rises up against nature by means of what we would today call culture.
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Everywhere in this world of 1400, populations existed in interconnections.
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The capitalist state exists to ensure the domination of one class over another.
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The development of industrial capitalism did not move in a smooth ascending line.
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In order to understand what the world would become, we must first know what it was.
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There may be "pie in the sky when you die" but how the pie is dished out on the ground has considerable existential relevance.
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To understand how caste works concretely, one must, however, look beyond kinship organization and ritual idiom to the political economy of caste.
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If history is the working out of a more moral purpose in time, then those who lay claim to that purpose are by that fact the predilect agents of history.
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The rise of industrial capitalism thus rested on the maintenance of slavery in another part of the world, even though that slavery was no longer dependent on the continuation of the slave trade.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Eric Wolf
Born:
February 1, 1923
Died:
March 6, 1999
(aged 76)
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