I am having trouble falling exactly what is going on in this discussion. The noise of rhetoric is muffling much of the signal. It has been a long time since I read Brenner on the transformation of the British countryside. I don't recall that being particularly stagist. The relationship between stagism and socialism from below eludes me, except to the extent that if you posit that technology drives the stages, then the working-class would probably be seen as a passive force in determining the transition to socialism. Autarky is another matter altogether. Here the idea seems to be that a country can go it own way, defying the supposedly predetermined process of following stage after stage. Is autarky the best way to describe this process? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
