Rather than those earnest intellectuals endeavouring to explain social change
what needs their attention is the phenomenon of stability and permanence—
why social order not completely collapsed, (Although in the US they are making an energetic attempt to do so) but how social orderi succeeded in stabilizing itself and persisting in the midst of general chaos and change.
In the area of permanence, how it is that Christianity,the hegemonic ideology of medieval times,survived the rise of capitalism? And does the same not hold for anti-Semitism? The true mystery to be explained is its persistence through so many different societies and modes of production—we find it in feudalism, , capitalism and socialism.
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