Hard to exaggerate the influence of stadialism—the notion that societies pass through a defined sequence of stages—on historical imaginaries
@nils_gilman Just read a zesty quip by Douglas Porch in his new COIN book calling Walt Rostow's capitalist stadialism "awfully Marxist".
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@ChMadar@nils_gilman K Boulding described Stages as "empty taxonomical boxes" in review titled "The Intellectual Framework of Bad Advice." -
@davidjmilne2@ChMadar Rostow was trying to be Marxist. As@nils_gilman says he was trying to reclaim Marx from Lenin
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