Devine:
What is "superiority"? is it the superiority of _all_ British agriculture? or just the capitalist segment? is it static superiority? or dynamic superiority, i.e., the creation of the structural basis for a take-off of capitalist agriculture, after the period around 1700. (The non-availability of data makes the cut-off period ambiguous.)
Go answer your own questions. You are not my professor and I am not your student. In fact, your laziness in this debate is a good argument for eliminating tenure.
Again, what kind of superiority? a greater ability to feed the people? no -- a greater ability to promote profits and accumulation.
Again, answer your own god-damned questions.
I am much too busy. I like numbers (a lot), but I also know that they mean completely different things in different theoretical contexts. The same numbers can have a lot of different interpretations. Because I lack the time to do research outside of my current fields, I am staying on a theoretical level. (I thought that I'd said this before.)
It is not a question of doing research. I made a very useful article by Robert Allen available on Marxmail so that the discussion could be deepened. Instead you dance on the surface like a Mayfly.
as I said, I don't have the time. But it's quite possible that he's got things in reverse.
You don't have the time to dig a bit deeper, but you have plenty of time for idle speculation. By the way, the word for speculation in Yiddish is "shpatzeer." It is just a cut above kibitzing. I am not sure whether you are shpatzeering or kibbitzing on this thread, but you are a bore.
FWIW, my impression is that Albritton is more than a purist. He's a proponent of the Japanese Uno school of Marxism, which has its own definitions. That's okay, since definitions are usually a matter of convention, but sometimes that messes up the ability to communicate.
I take it that you will get around to reading Albritton after you read Robert Allen, sometime in the 22nd century if you live so long.
I'm not sure what you're asking here.
Well, a fact or two would liven up the discussion. Please wake me up when you can pull a few together.
Since I do not have the time to deal with (or rather, return to) this topic of research, all I can do is to try to understand what's being said on the theoretical level (which is easier).
Okay, we get it. You don't have time. I have a 35 hour week job programming Unix applications, write 3 to 5 articles a week to my blog and moderate a thousand member mailing list. If I have time, you have time. What you don't have is motivation. You are a lazy slug and a windbag. -- www.marxmail.org
