It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking of the remaining opposition to the commodification of everything, and it tended to wipe away all the negatives of capitalism on the grounds that the benefits outweighed, by far, the harm.


Capistalist Civilisation (ed. Verso, 1995) - ISBN: 9781859841051

Immanuel Wallerstein Quotes

It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It...

It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It...

It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It...

It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It...