On 4/26/07, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>exactly. Marx used both parts, in CAPITAL.
>
>my old simile: capitalism is like an engine. The one-sided class war
>against the English rural producers that Marx describes in CAPITAL
>allowed the engine to be created, but a lot of the fuel came from
>looting the rest of the world, etc.
So there was no class war against the rural producers in 16th century
Bolivia and Peru?
of course there was. It helped create a lot of non-proletarian
(bonded) labor and eventually the latifundia/minifundia system that
prevailed there.
--
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your
own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
