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  • The German Kings Against the Pope and the Italian-Dominated Catholic Church
    The Origins of Democracy in Tribes City-States and Nation-States, 2020
    Co-Authors: Ronald M Glassman
    Abstract:

    The Reformation did not begin in Wittenberg with the young Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the Church door. It began much earlier/ and was linked with two political and social processes: one was the struggle between the Kings and the Pope for political supremacy, as the Kings expanded their authority through the development of a bureaucratic state; the second process had to do with the growth of the trade-Capitalist City-states, with their entire culture based on business, banking, money changing, and contract law. The secular, rational orientation to the world generated by these trade-Capitalist City-states clashed with the theological orientation of the Roman Catholic Church—in the sense that the Church was actively restricting banking practices and interest charges, and strongly repressing the rational-scientific view of nature and human society.

  • The Importance of City-States in the Evolution of Democratic Political Processes
    The Origins of Democracy in Tribes City-States and Nation-States, 2020
    Co-Authors: Ronald M Glassman
    Abstract:

    We have emphasized the importance of the trade-Capitalist City-states of Mesopotamia, the Levant, and the Aegean. For in them, the vestiges of tribal democracy were retained or reorganized into City-state democracy: the warriors assembly became the citizens assembly; the tribal elders became the City fathers; the courts still had citizens participation; the Kings were heads of the army, but the office was sometimes elective, and, even where hereditary, chosen from amongst the families of the City fathers.

  • The Centralizing Monarchies Become Dependent on Money from the City-States
    The Origins of Democracy in Tribes City-States and Nation-States, 2020
    Co-Authors: Ronald M Glassman
    Abstract:

    In order to finance their continuous wars and to maintain a luxury life-style, the Kings became dependent upon the expanding wealth of the trade—Capitalist City-states. The King’s armies were becoming eves larger—as were their navies—and these armies were no longer feudal, but rather professional. Therefore, the soldiers fought for pay, and the Kings needed money to pay them. Further, the lifestyle of the Kings and those lords and officials attached to the King’s expanding “court” began to exhibit ever more luxurious standards. Huge estate houses were built in the countryside, and luxury houses in the cities as well. Fashions and jewelry and artistic decorations became even more expensive and fabulous—rivaling the excesses of the Middle Eastern, Indian, and Chinese monarchies.

  • the german trade Capitalist City states
    2017
    Co-Authors: Ronald M Glassman
    Abstract:

    The German City-states were exactly the same as their Dutch and Swiss counterparts. They developed first as trading centers and market towns. They grew along the river routes that connected the interior of Germany to the Atlantic and Baltic coasts in the north, and connected France, Switzerland, and Italy in the south.

  • the trade Capitalist City states of switzerland
    2017
    Co-Authors: Ronald M Glassman
    Abstract:

    The Swiss free farmers, as we have described, formed their leagues of allied warriors. But they maintained their tribal “thing” assemblies, and extended them, pending representatives to the regional league assemblies, just as the Icelanders sent representatives to the “althing” assemblies. However, the Swiss farmers were rather primitive in everything but warfare. They had learned the latest warfare techniques and technologies from their years of mercenary service in Italy and Germany. In terms of literacy, law, science, and religion, these Swiss democrats remained backward.

David Champagne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Explaining the Capitalist City: an idea of progress in Harvey’s Marxism
    Theory and Society, 2018
    Co-Authors: David Champagne
    Abstract:

    What allows theories to evolve, to progress? A contentious notion, progress still haunts a number of contemporary theories. However, little research invites us to rethink progress in a comprehensive way. In this article, I contribute to this issue by considering the paradigmatic case of David Harvey’s Marxism. A pathbreaking thinker in geography, sociology, and urban studies, Harvey claims his theory intrinsically surpasses its inherent contradictions. However, numerous authors suggest otherwise, as it fails to engage with essential urban processes such as those based on state, gendered, racial, or environmental dynamics. These aspects of social life challenge his dialectical ambition. I argue that Harvey’s attachment to an orthodox Marxism ultimately limits his claim to theoretical progress. Reviewing Harvey’s overall body of work, I focus on his metatheory regarding space and his examination of the Paris Commune. I argue that his ideas on the progress of theory follow from his dialectical assumptions, which in turn inhibit his portrayal of practical realities and a continuous dialogue with concrete cases.

  • explaining the Capitalist City an idea of progress in harvey s marxism
    Theory and Society, 2018
    Co-Authors: David Champagne
    Abstract:

    What allows theories to evolve, to progress? A contentious notion, progress still haunts a number of contemporary theories. However, little research invites us to rethink progress in a comprehensive way. In this article, I contribute to this issue by considering the paradigmatic case of David Harvey’s Marxism. A pathbreaking thinker in geography, sociology, and urban studies, Harvey claims his theory intrinsically surpasses its inherent contradictions. However, numerous authors suggest otherwise, as it fails to engage with essential urban processes such as those based on state, gendered, racial, or environmental dynamics. These aspects of social life challenge his dialectical ambition. I argue that Harvey’s attachment to an orthodox Marxism ultimately limits his claim to theoretical progress. Reviewing Harvey’s overall body of work, I focus on his metatheory regarding space and his examination of the Paris Commune. I argue that his ideas on the progress of theory follow from his dialectical assumptions, which in turn inhibit his portrayal of practical realities and a continuous dialogue with concrete cases.

Luca Pattaroni - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

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Simon Parker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Critical Urban Theory versus Critical Urban Studies: A Review Debate
    International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2020
    Co-Authors: Peter Marcuse, David Imbroscio, Simon Parker, Jonathan S. Davies, Warren Magnusson
    Abstract:

    Critical urban theory and critical urban studies form the subject of two recent edited collections on approaches to the analysis and transformation of the contemporary Capitalist City. In an exchange of commentaries by the respective editors and contributors, the introduction explains the genesis of each book and previews some of the key observations. Peter Marcuse then offers his assessment of Critical Urban Studies: New Directions, which is reciprocated by a commentary on Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City by Jonathan Davies, David Imbroscio and Warren Magnusson.

  • Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City
    2003
    Co-Authors: Simon Parker
    Abstract:

    1. Encountering the City 2.The Foundations of Urban Theory: Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebvre 3. The City Described: Social Reform and the Empirical Tradition in Classic Urban Studies 4.Visions of Utopia: From the Garden City to the New Urbanism 5. Between the Suburb and the Ghetto: Urban Studies and the Search for Community In Britain and the United States After the Second World War 6. Urban Fortunes: Making Sense of the Capitalist City 7. The Contested City: Politics, People and Power 8. The Majority Urban World: the Growth and Development of Cities in the Global South 9. Cities Under Stress: the Uneven Geographies of Urban Deprivation 10. From Pillar to Post: Culture Representation and Difference 11. The Information City: Linking the Virtual and Material Urban Worlds 12. Putting the City in its Place: Urban Futures and the Future of Urban Theory

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