On 09/03/11 10:47, Jurriaan Bendien wrote: > Western hegemony existed already before the hegemony of coal, gas and oil. > Western hegemony doesn't depend on coal, gas and oil, but on the relative > quantity of capital assets it can mobilize.
That is just a (rhetorical) statement like any other. I could also say: It wasn't until 1800 that the European economy become bigger than Asia's, i.e. not until coal fired industrialisation propelled it forth. jmp -- http://commoning.wordpress.com "...I thought we were an autonomous collective..." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
