Re: Re: Re: Eurocentrism once again

[Louis Proyect]

>Wasn't Brenner continuing in the footpath of Maurice Dobb's criticisms of
>Sweezy, ditto Wood? 

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.





Louis Proyect
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