Re: Samir Amin

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > Brenner & Ellen Wood are anti-Weberians, though one must admit that
>  > Max Weber was a subtler thinker than Ricardo Duchesne
>
>I should take this as a compliment since Weber is the greatest
>classical sociologist, a truly great thinker, whereas I am, as you
>rightly say a provincial [unknown] academic in Canada.

Take it as a backhanded compliment to your zeal....

Empire has to periodically renew itself with fresh blood from its 
margins (like Canada).  Without Irish, Scottish, Welsh, & other 
writers, so-called "English literature" becomes a poor shadow of what 
it has claimed for itself.

Perhaps it is appropriate that the most fervent believer in the 
existence & efficacy of "European culture" on this list is a man with 
a Latin name in Canada....

Yoshie