It's the GENETIC differences that have created the differences between Spain and Switzerland? How about the differences between Spain and Egypt? Russia and Brazil? China and Ethiopia have more in common economically, politically, for example, than Ethiopia and the DRC
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But you're already hitting on the point without realizing it. It is uniquely human to have ideology, to have these kinds of complex social relations (and a vast variety of social relations!) and to have /history/. If you actually compare these social formations historically,
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you'll find they have a lot more to do with the material conditions underlining a given society than the genetics of that society, as we see similar formations at different times across the world, across populations!
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There's no historical evidence of liberal societies originating among anybody but NW Europeans. ...
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...you do realize that's because liberalism is the ideological component of early capitalism? It was rejected everywhere feudal relations were to be found. Liberalism isn't even a form of society it's an ideology
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Individualism is a biological trait, before it is a social construction, or an ideology. It is highly differentially distributed within the human species.
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"... on par with Marxist sociology" is funny.
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I wouldn't accuse Mr land of being a randian. No he has far too much fun courting the totalitarianism at the heart of capitalism
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