Charles Brown wrote: > > Charles: The capitalism mode of production had a division of labor between >Euro-America and colonies. But the concrete relationship between these major >divisions has different qualitative and quantitative fits in different times. On the >other hand, these concrete historical periods are not completely different. So, we >may learn something about today from the earlier phases of the relationship. yes. > > Charles: Marx pointed out that social science must use abstraction in ways that >substitute for natural scientific use of experimentation. No slicing, no historical >science. Abstraction does not mean anti-empirical. > again. you are correct. but here we are jumping quickly from one level of abstraction to another, whereas Marx spend years and years trying to work things out carefully. > Charles: Ho Che Minh and millions of other colonial liberators have given us a big >leg up. Now only we in the imperialist centers can return the favor, though I bet our >proletarian internationalism will be greeted comradely in Viet Nam and all around the >world. My point was that it is much easier to chant Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Min than to do hard organizing work. Some third worldism slipped into that mode. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901
