What I meant was that we must understand that our understanding is
imperfect and that we cannot speak as if we could command absolute truths.
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:17:17PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
> >Given this complexity, it is dangerous to pretend that one can command
> >adequate information about formations that are distant and time and space.
> >
> >
> >Michael Perelman
>
> So what is this? A justification for ignoring the facts about 16th to 18th
> century Mexico, Bolivia and Peru? If you took this kind of warning
> seriously, you never would have written "The Invention of Capitalism" which
> draws upon scholarly and source material written in and about England in
> this period. Guess what. The same kind of information exists for Mexico,
> Bolivia and Peru and I plan to draw on it for my final post.
>
> Louis Proyect
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California State University
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