Yoshie:
Erase _contradiction_ from history as you (unlike Marx, Eric
Williams, John Ashworth, Thomas Laqueur) do, and you can't explain
any _change_ (from one mode of production to another, as well as
within one mode of production).
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Mat:
I don't seem to be able to get this message through, probably I am just not
being clear, but *when I refer to the Enslavement Industry and Trade
I in no way
am limiting that to the southern plantations*. So the total system has to be
considered. The
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For example, we can understand the transition from Reconstruction-era
institutions to Jim Crow as a change in the nature of the capitalist racial
formation, rooted partly in requirements of capitalism, but without reductionism
or economism.
Denying that the
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Marx argues that while slavery facilitated so-called primitive
accumulation, eventually it became an *economically backward*
institution, necessarily dependent upon extensive increase of new
territories with a naturally fertile soil, *not* upon
tional" African economy is way off, in my view. O'Connor makes an
important contribution in the tradition of Samir Amin.
Mat
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Mat:
This idea that racism and racist institutions are "irrational" with respect to
capitalist "rationality" is dangerously close to Gary Becker's original view
about discrimination, and i
At 10:21 AM 10/31/00 -0600, you wrote:
Let me recommend Jim
O'Connor's work on "uneven and combined development," where he argues that
combined development such as "19th century working conditions and 21st century
technology" or South African bantustans where subsistence agriculture
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At 10:21 AM 10/31/00 -0600, you wrote:
Let me recommend Jim
O'Connor's work on "uneven and combined development," where he
Mat:
I don't seem to be able to get this message through, probably I am just not
being clear, but *when I refer to the Enslavement Industry and Trade
I in no way
am limiting that to the southern plantations*. So the total system has to be
considered. The total system was supported by the
Marx argues that while slavery facilitated so-called primitive
accumulation, eventually it became an *economically backward*
institution, dependent upon extensive increase of new territories
with a naturally fertile soil, *not* upon capital-intensive
cultivation. It goes without saying that
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