tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8973162.post2640440267468931371..comments2024-03-27T16:44:31.600+05:30Comments on Stranded in the Present: Communism and Kerala -iiiManju Edangamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00474338169829802934noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8973162.post-12292199635788070912010-06-19T14:02:12.791+05:302010-06-19T14:02:12.791+05:30While I laughed a bit at your neologism "welf...While I laughed a bit at your neologism "welfarism", which would deserve extensive discussion, I think you may be right, oddly enough, when you propose that, in some cases, there was a transition from tribalism (primitive communism?) to (proto-)capitalism. <br /><br />I have mentioned before that some of the fastest developing societies in Capitalism were certainly underdeveloped in terms of Feudalism (dominance of free peasants, weakness of landowner aristocratic caste), so it's not really surprising to find such examples in Kerala either.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com