It’s been almost a century and a half since Karl Marx’s death, and decades since the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and elsewhere. In the still nominally…View Post
I very strongly agree with the points you're making wrt. eurocentrism, and that have been made about progressivist unilineal history but I'd like to add that Korea was absolutely a slave economy. For most of Korea's recorded history 25-40% of the population were slaves.
I very strongly agree with the points you're making wrt. eurocentrism, and that have been made about progressivist unilineal history but I'd like to add that Korea was absolutely a slave economy. For most of Korea's recorded history 25-40% of the population were slaves.
What do you suppose caused it to diverge so greatly from its neighbors?