Re: Re: Re: Re: Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re: weber)

[Louis Proyect]

>Spain also became colonialist and didn't "take off." Ditto Portugal. 

Silver and gold ran out. Slaves + earth + water + cotton seeds or sugar
seeds lasts forever.

>The Netherlands sank and Britain rose, though both were colonial 
>powers. Germany was only a middling imperial power but became an 
>industrial giant. So this:

Numbers?

>seems a bit oversimplified - and Mexico's irrelevant to the question 
>because it was clearly subordinated for a long long time, and 
>continues to be.
>
>Doug

The question was whether enclosures lead to a "take off". Sounds to me like
you have some other question on your mind, but I am no mind reader.

Louis Proyect
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