andie nachgeborenen : The degree of technological advancement in the middle ages is also underestimated. These are the people who built those cathedrals, invented three-field crop rotation, and a good many technological advances. Years ago I read a book by Lynn White on medieval technology. True, technological development took off sharply with the Idnustrial revolution, but that's at least 200 years after capitalism was firmly rooted in British soil (among other places). As Brenner has argued, the divioding line between feudalsim and capitalism is property relations -- the productive relations -- not technolkogy and the productive forces.
^^^^ CB: Yes, not only the cathedrals, but the castles, maybe ? I wonder about the masonic secret societies under the bourgeoisie as the descendents of some type of really functional stone masonic worker organizations from that period. Are there rational kernels or crumbs in alchemy ? Of course, politically, feudalism is less imperial than the prior slave society or the subsequent capitalism. The manorial level of organization is like _posse comitatus_. I'd think that anarchists would champion feudalism more. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
