Re: Re: Reply to Brenner/Wood, part 2

[Michael Pugliese]

http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=58 Feudalism Bibliography   ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 3:10 PM Subject: [PEN-L:12145] Re: Reply to Brenner/Wood, part 2 << The title of Laclau's 1971 New Left Review article was "Feudalism and 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. Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass --