Anthony wrote: > This is known as Eurocentrism < Nothing is wrong with Euro-centrism when the question is: How did some agrarian societies give rise to capitalism? It happened in Europe.
Okay, that is a provocative remark. Part of the answer to the above question must examine why other agrarian societies did not. There are fascinating studies, for example, of the large amount of petty capital in Song dynasty China - involving maybe 20 to 25 percent of the economy - yet the key feature of the capitalist mode of production, most production by wage labor, did not happen. Pre-capitalist forms of exploitation of the peasants, who remained the main producing class, stood strong. But the crucial changes in Europe and the crucial absence of such change in China occurred before the phenomena debated by Brenner and critics like Louis P. Charles Andrews announcement for my new book: http://www.hollowcolossus.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
