Steve, please stop "grading" other people's posts. Write the person off
list if you want.
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:26:43AM +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
> At 03/06/01 20:56 -1000, you wrote:
> >On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Chris Burford wrote:
> > > I wonder now what contemptuous humorous joke Louis Proy
At 03/06/01 20:56 -1000, you wrote:
>On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Chris Burford wrote:
> > I wonder now what contemptuous humorous joke Louis Proyect was trying to
> > stifle when I first enquired whether there had been any discussion of
> > sheep. If it was anything more than political analysis by sectar
At 04/06/01 09:41 +0100, Mark Jones wrote:
Chris Burford wrote:
> In my earlier post entitled 'A People's History of England' I
> gave detailed
> evidence of why orthodox marxist views on England in the past
gave
> prominence to the role of sheep and wool in the emergence of
> capitalism in
> Eng
Michael Perelman:
>
>
> Actually, Mark privately criticized me for that part of the book.
I said the following about the book on the CrashList:
> The importance of "The Invention of Capitalism" cannot be underestimated.
> The history of so-called "Primitive Accumulation" is still not just
> litt
Actually, Mark privately criticized me for that part of the book. I
mostly agreed with him, but I did not have time to take advantage of his
comments. Still, on the whole, there were stong similarities between the
two.
I did not look at much of the international contribution because I was
tryi
>When was this? Arguably, England was not backward in terms of political
>development, from before the Norman Conquest. No European state was as
>mature as Edward the Confessor's. And when was the following? Arguably,
>there were always labour shortages in England, except for brief periods in
>the
I believed that at the time when England was exporting raw wool, it was
fairly backward economcally; that the European city states were ahead.
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:41:14AM +0100, Mark Jones wrote:
> Michael Perelman:
> >
> >
> > I agree with much of Mark's note, except for the way he dismis
A rising tide of nausea when faced with the prospect of getting into this
debate yet again meant that my copy-editing of my last humble effort was
parsimonious even by my own generally reckless standards. But since I took
the trouble to answer Chris's post, I suppose I should go the extra mile and
At 01/06/01 11:50 -1000, you wrote:
>I have never been a big fan of British sheep. They make me wanna sleep.
>
>Steve
You seem not be be energised by the evidence that Ellen Wood is guilty of a
propagating a non-proletarian analysis of history.
Besides why do you confuse English sheep with Br
