he doesn't refute the Brenner-Marx hypothesis as much as highlight one aspect of it. He's referring to the source of fuel for England's engine of growth, while the emphasis of Brenner and Marx is on the engine itself.
On 12/11/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://histomatist.blogspot.com/2006/12/winston-churchill-on-slavery-and-slave.html Monday, December 11, 2006 Winston Churchill on slavery and the slave trade 'Our [Britain's] possession of the West Indies, like that of India... gave us the strength, the capital, the wealth at a time when no other European nation possessed such a reserve. It enabled us to come through the Napoleonic wars, the keen competition of the 18th and 19th centuries and enabled us to lay the foundation of that commercial and financial leadership which gave us a great position in the world.' Winston Churchill addressing a banquet of West Indies sugar planters in London on 20 July 1939. -- www.marxmail.org
-- Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." -- Bertolt Brecht
