> That was my impression too. Moore really focuses in on social relations.
> His work on India, China and Japan is valuable because there is so
> little of it in english (as far as I'm aware.) Of course it is somewhat
> dated and open to interpretation.
>   Didn't Moore co-author(co-edit?)a work with Marcuse and R.Paul Wolff
> *The Critique of Pure Tolerance*? Michael Hoover will know.
> 

In this age when so much postmodernist trash has been published, 
like that of Judith Butler's, which has been paraded as serious academic work, 
when it is really just  mumbo-jumbo, it is a real pleasure to read a 
book like Social Origins which thinks it is possible to understand the patterns 
of long term historical change. Skocpol, who was a student of Moore, is the 
one who took a more Weberian approach in her emphasis on geopolitical 
relations. 





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