International competition in historical materialism

In: New left review: NLR, Band 183, Heft Sep/Oct 90

Abstract

Particular societies exist in an environment that is both physical and geopolitical. Unsuccessful societies if they survive will tend to adopt structures of their successful rivals, either through assimilation or crisis. Some states will select a developmentally better structure than the dominant culture possession and this will be diffused by emulation or conquest. (SJK)