Re: Re: Re: Re: Eurocentrism once again

[Stephen E Philion]

this amounts to an argument along the lines of , "I don't like the
argument therefore the argument is of no value because I say so....".

Steve

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On Wed, 23 May 2001, Louis Proyect wrote:

> >Wasn't Brenner continuing in the footpath of Maurice Dobb's criticisms of
> >Sweezy, ditto Wood?
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> I think that Brenner's addenda to the Dobb-Sweezy would have remained mired
> in academic obscurity had he not lashed out at "third worldism" in the NLR.
> Nobody reads "Past and Present" except other scholars like Patricia Croot
> and La Durie. And nobody much cares about the problems of when and how
> exactly capitalism got started except them. For the average Marxist
> activist, these are arcane topics. What does pique our interest, however,
> is the notion that revolutions in the "third world" are doomed to
> 'autarky'. That's what Brenner wrote in his NLR article and it is a pile of
> crap.
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> Louis Proyect
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