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The one complaint I would make is that the author doesn't fully confront the Jay Mandle thesis that slavery and post-Reconstruction share-cropping and tenancy in the South represented a "plantation" mode of production rather than capitalism --- If we insist that the concept of a mode of production involves the relationship between people at the point of production, then slavery and post-reconstruction relationships are CLEARLY different from capitalist ones --- despite the role of the "law of value" in setting prices.... The emphasis on the independent mode of production and "safety first" farming is right on ..... On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 7:44 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > This paper aims to rethink United States history from the colonial era > through the Civil War and Reconstruction by examining how capitalism and > empire joined together as the logic of expansion increasingly became driven > by the logic of capital over approximately two hundred and fifty years. > Specically, it argues that (what became) the United States originated as a > society with capitalism and became a capitalist society. This transition > was a highly complex and uneven process as a variety of social forms > developed and interacted, and in which there was not one road to > capitalism, but a variety, depending on the historical circumstance. To > accomplish this, first, the article reviews the Marx-Weber debate to > develop a theoretical and methodological approach to the historical > sociology of capitalism. The remainder of the paper focuses on narrating an > empirical interpretation of the transition to capitalism including the > diversity of labor forms capital historically utilized. > > https://www.academia.edu/30406872/The_Two_Hundred_and_Fifty_ > Year_Transition_How_the_American_Empire_Became_Capitalist > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/mameerop%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
