Re: Catalonia (was Re: Max Weber's Genteel Racism )

[Louis Proyect]

>than the Castilians.  For once, Madrid did not repeat its previous 
>mistakes: the liberties and privileges of Catalonia were fully 
>restored.
>
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Britannica online? Yoshie, you can do better than this.

>Spain lacked the Prince (or the Leviathan) who could create an 
>integrated polity & national market, despite the facade of "absolute 
>monarchy."  A vicious dialectic of external wars, internal revolts, & 
>mounting debts.

Yes, but they had capitalist agriculture, the magic bullet for future
success. With capitalist agriculture, all things are possible: steam
engines, fish and chips, Rudyard Kipling, BBC, Wilkinson razor blades and
Boy George.







Louis Proyect
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