Reply To: Our chance to forswear allegiance
” In the Middle East in a pre capitalist society, Christians, Jewish and Muslim lived together in harmony and peace for more than 900 years, and they practiced their own religion without any intolerances, therefore human being lived in a social production for thousands of years and the research made by Marx and Engels are correct in regard to the primitive society.”
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Quite so. I think the history now with regard to distinct hominids is three million years. But of course, evolution isn’t a line of distinct compartments like train carriages; it is fluid.
In Sicily under Norman rule, Catholics, Muslims and Greeks co-operated in church building, and churches there are consisting of each faith’s contributions to floors, murals, etc.
Of course, Marx was also admiring of medieval Provence, ever since the Romans considered the Garden of Europe. During the century and a half of independent Occitan rule, Moslems and Jews were protected there, even during the Crusades. So were Cathars. These pacifists were actively protected by the Occitan nobles, with their lives. The same was true of Peter’s Aragon and Alfonso’s Castile, and of Moorish Spain, where a vibrant Sephardic civilization blossomed, and where refugee Cathars found safety.