Capitalism in Latin America". Not "Precapitalism and Capitalism". >>
Still bobbing and weaving on this one, I see.
The issue here is not whether Laclau saw elements of the feudal mode of
production or of pre-capitalist modes of production in third world economies,
since he would quite clearly see the former as one form of the latter.
Feudalism is, of course, a pre-capitalist mode of production.
The issue is that Laclau was not putting forth a position, as you originally
claimed, that third world economies were, en toto, pre-capitalist or
feudalist [whichever you prefer], but that they involved articulations of
capitalist and other modes of production. The only position in the debate
that saw these economies as undifferentiated was the one you are so
forcefully advocating, Andre Gunder Frank, who saw them as undifferentiated
capitalist economies.
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