>From James Petras and Kent Trachte, "Liberal, Structural and Radical
Approaches to Political Economy", in Petras, *Critical Perspectives on
Imperialism and Social Classes in the Third World*,
"To conceptualize the issues of the Third World in terms of dependency or
as part of a world system is to lose sight of the most decisive processes
of class formation and social relations which beget social change and the
particular configurations of social forces which emerge on a world scale."
That in a nutshell summarizes what motivated Brenner to write the essay on
Neo-Smithian Marxim that so irritated Lou and Blaut. Now, if Brenner's
essay is "eurocentric", so is Petras. If Petras is Eurocentric, I say long
live Eurocentrism. Ditto for Brenner actually...
Steve
Stephen Philion
Lecturer/PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
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