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Richard Bosworth ponders the four types of humans and the problems of business hegemony -
"Very courageous, Minister," might be the reaction of the tea-room at Teddy Hall, Oxford, where David Priestland is established as a reasonably sober Sovietologist. His "new history of power", he at once states challengingly, aims at analysis of the entire human past, since "we can only start to solve our present problems if we have a clear-eyed view of the past". History, he asserts, "is the only kind of guide we have to the future, and so before we can go forward, we have to go back". In order to process the immensity of his topic, Priestland urges that human beings were, are and always will be divisible into four types, four castes: the warrior, the merchant, the sage and the worker-peasant.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-sun-sets-on-the-modern/137881
Richard Bosworth ponders the four types of humans and the problems of business hegemony -
"Very courageous, Minister," might be the reaction of the tea-room at Teddy Hall, Oxford, where David Priestland is established as a reasonably sober Sovietologist. His "new history of power", he at once states challengingly, aims at analysis of the entire human past, since "we can only start to solve our present problems if we have a clear-eyed view of the past". History, he asserts, "is the only kind of guide we have to the future, and so before we can go forward, we have to go back". In order to process the immensity of his topic, Priestland urges that human beings were, are and always will be divisible into four types, four castes: the warrior, the merchant, the sage and the worker-peasant.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-sun-sets-on-the-modern/137881
