Re: Capitalism as slavery and colonialism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Lou:

>  >Louis,
>>
>>But this is what troubles me about all this: isn't the argument you are
>>advancing an ideological reason to be opposed to the thesis at hand rather
>>than a social scientific one? Are we to dismiss arguments because of the way
>>they are used by modernization theorists?
>>
>>Andrew
>
>I argue against the proposition that capitalism arose in England purely as
>a consequence of internal factors uninfluenced by colonialism and slavery.

The view that the emergence of capitalist social relations _cannot_ 
be explained by the growth of commerce & trade, slavery & 
colonialism, and/or neo-Malthusian factors _alone_ is _not_ the same 
as a "proposition that capitalism arose in England purely as a 
consequence of internal factors uninfluenced by colonialism and 
slavery."

Yoshie