Responses
to a Book Review
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In a previous posting I
put up a slightly modified brief review of a book by the ideologue Thomas
Sowell, Conquest and Cultures.1 Which I had posted at Amazon.com. In that book
Thomas Sowell regurgitated a basic late 19th century Whig
interpretation of History view of the development of various societies. The
book was in my opinion seriously flawed and basically danced over the fact, and
it is fact, that Western Dominance was not just the result of the accumulation
of “Cultural Capital”, (Thomas Sowell’s use of this phrase is an excellent example
of the tendency of such ideologues to commodify things that are not commodities.
In other words an excellent example of the commodity fetish.), but also of
exploitation of others through coercive violence, fraud and exploitation. In
other words straight forward imperialism. Instead Sowell argues that it was largely
the result of what amounts to moral superiority. That is pure hogwash. Some
people responded to my opinions of this book. Here are their comments with my
responses, here expanded.
