From: Paul Zarembka (zarembka@BUFFALO.EDU)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2006 - 13:23:12 EST
Anybody know if Marx did anything on the 17th century J. Harrington? Paul P.S. "1611?77, English political writer. His Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) pictured a utopian society in which political authority rested entirely with the landed gentry. Harrington advocated definite agrarian reforms, however, in order to achieve a greater equality of power. He sought to abolish primogeniture and to limit the amount of land an individual could hold. He also advocated division of the powers of government, a written constitution, and the principle of rotation in office. Penn’s government in Pennsylvania is said to owe much to the Oceana. Harrington’s ideas can be seen in the doctrines of the American Revolution and the French Revolution." <http://www.bartleby.com/65/ha/Harringt.html> ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- I cannot believe that Marx was not aware of what Harrington did, just about every political writer was, and, moreover, there are so many points in common between the two --- the principal one being Harrington's insistence on the economic foundation of political systems.... *********************************************************************** RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, Paul Zarembka, editor, Elsevier Science ******************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka
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