----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I am preparing a lengthy reply to Charles Post, which involves a review of > a lot of material I've never looked at before--starting with Phil Foner's > fascinating account of ties between NYC merchants and the Southern > plantations. I was prompted to write about Locke after discovering in James > Oakes "Slavery and Freedom" that his ideas about political economy in > general and slavery in particular were embraced by the slavocracy. > Meanwhile Ellen Meiksins Wood views him as a kind of patron saint of the > agrarian bourgeoisie in Great Britain, which was the vanguard of capitalist > transformation. Meanwhile, Post views slavery and capitalism as > antithetical. I do not and will explain why when I have gathered together > and digested all the relevant material. > ================= Didn't Locke own stock in one of the Corporations/Colonies? The very SC for which he helped draft the constitution? Ian
