Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/
CB:>In the context of the debate over the origins of capitalism , I think it means that Marx's thinking on the issue is different than Brenner's. The passage Brenner should ponder is Capital Vol I Part VIII: Primitive Accumulation CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE:GENESIS OF THE INDUSTRIAL CAPITALIST below: What does Brenner make of something like this from Marx ? >"The treasures captured outside Europe by undisguised looting, enslavement, and murder, floated back to the mother-country and were there turned into _capital_ ( emphasis CB) "< I can't channel Bob today, since for some reason the ether is occluded by bad vibes. But I'd guess that he might use the metaphor that I've used before in pen-l. The destruction of the English independent peasantry and the resulting creation a large proletariat (dependent on the capitalists for survival) created an engine of growth for England. Looting from the colonies, the slave trade, etc. provided fuel for that engine at a crucial time. JD
