On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: me: >> Of course, we can always _define_ capitalism as requiring forced labor >> in the periphery, since definitions are very arbitrary. Does that >> definition say that capitalism _cannot exist_ without forced labor?
Louis P: > Maybe in a parallel universe based on nitrogen rather than carbon life > forms. But not on the planet Earth historically. so what's the theory behind that assertion? or is it an empirical generalization? -- Jim Devine / "An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." -- John Buchan _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
