Reply to Ellen Meiksins Wood, part 1

[Ricardo Duchesne]

> I agree with Jim.  That's basically the crux of the debate: what is
> the most important causal mechanism that gave rise to capitalism,
> i.e., M-C-M'?  Not culture, not climate, not environment, not
> geography, not demography (understood in the Malthusian sense), not
> quantitative growth of markets & towns, but class struggles that
> gradually led to free labor & eventually to wage labor.
> 
> Yoshie

no books, no research, no debate, no history. just jim