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Louis, I was focusing on the implications of Baptist's work for Genovese's.
Jesse
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Proyect" <l...@panix.com>
To: "Jesse Lemisch" <jesse.lemi...@verizon.net>; "Activists and scholars in
Marxist tradition" <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
On 10/5/14 2:41 PM, Jesse Lemisch via Marxism wrote:
Baptist is not only at odds with Post but also, I would think, at odds
with Geoovese.
Jesse Lemisch
Well, Post offers a critique of Genovese but not one that is very
convincing. Ultimately both come up with a "stagist" conception in which
American slavery is replaced by capitalism. In some ways it is
understandable that a Brennerite framework would lead to this overlapping
because the original debate between Sweezy and Dobb involved the British
Historians Group mobilizing against Sweezy. Hobsbawm, to name just one,
crystallized a "stagist" approach that had a long history in CP circles.
Brenner would be the first to disavow any connections with the Dobb group
but there is just too much similarity to be ignored. I am very happy to
see the pendulum swinging against the Brennerites on the civil war. I only
wish that Jim Blaut was still alive to be relishing it.
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