Jim Devine writes:

>> On the other hand, Western-style possessive individualism (a.k.a.
>> anti-social personality disorder) does seem to have arisen with
>> capitalism, somewhere between 1600 and 1700. (The first well-known
>> book with this sort of ideology is Hobbes' LEVIATHAN, published in
>> 1660.) Possessive individualism suggests a different kind of
>> "political freedom" than democracy does.

Do you really believe that "Western-style possessive individualism" did not 
exist before 1600?  Or do you mean that there was no ideological defense of the 
behavior before Hobbes, which is a different point?

David Shemano

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