Authority & Inequality as seen in 1985 by Barrington Moore

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/m/moore86.pdf

Barrington Moore was a very great sociologist; in his 1985 Tanner Lectures he discusses Authority and Inequality under capitalism and soviet communism ....

for those who like this sort of thing

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Two generations ago, by the time fascism was thoroughly defeated, most of these discontents would have fueled either Marxist movements or militant movements for reform within the liberal capitalist order. Now that both of these have lost much of their luster, religious and chauvinist fundamentalist movements are taking their place by offering an image of the future and a cause to fight for. Fighting can be an excellent antidote for boredom and despair, especially for the young with limited prospects and tenuous social ties. Beirut and Belfast may be the images of the future rather than Orwell's bureaucratic nightmare. I certainly hope not. But I would like to have stronger grounds for hope than any I can presently discern.

in May 1985 from the concluding paragraph ..

[Serial_Apologist]

http://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_docu.../m/moore86.pdf

Barrington Moore was a very great sociologist; in his 1985 Tanner Lectures he discusses Authority and Inequality under capitalism and soviet communism ....

for those who like this sort of thing

We do, we dooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

(well, some of us! I've uploaded the link, thanks Calum - plenty to inwardly digest after offering a few premature ejaculations of my own in the exciting discussion I anticipate on here. )

[Serial_Apologist]

in May 1985 from the concluding paragraph ..

It must have been somewhere around 1996 that Radio 3 broadcast a short series of programmes titled "What's the Big Idea?" - the first of which was subtitled "End of the Socialist Dream". Various people were brought on to trash the very idea let alone practices of socialism and avoid talking to anyone to the left of Stuart Hall and Eric Hobsbawm; but I still have the cassette, which I must relisten to, recalling almost spitting blood at the time, and remember Hobsbawm making the precient point that removing socialism from the options of history would leave a huge hole, which in turn was likely to be filled with all manner of fundamentalisms, of which nationalism was one.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

along similar lines Albert O Hirschman on reactionary rhetoric

[eighthobstruction]

Stuart Hall has just died apparently....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Stuart Hall has just died apparently....

he has indeed