Rakesh, please stop the personal sniping. Last warning. In The Invention of Capitalism, I mostly dealt with domestic primitive accumulation in England. In my new book in progress, I treat primitive accumulation in the colonies as the fuel of the domestic economy, but also as an ultimately self-defeating project because much of the surplus was dissipated in imperial wars. As a result, the great imperial powers, Spain, Portugal, Holland, England ended up as lesser powers.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Lakshmi Rhone <[email protected]> wrote: > This was Hilferding's criticism of the theory of state or bureaucratic > capitalism, that the relatively harmless bureaucrats were not in control but > subordinate to Stalin (and Hitler) in a system of totalitarian state > economy. But there are still questions of how and why bureaucrats, somewhat > distant from the consequences of their actions, acceded to the demands of > dictators. This raises the question of the cipher-like nature of the > bureaucratic personality, a question taken up by Weber, the Frankfurt School > and Zygmunt Bauman (Modernity and the Holocaust). > > Jim, I must warn you that Jurriaan stopped but you have kept on going on. I > don't want to have put you on ignore for some time. You are clearly > responsible for the degeneration of the conversation :) > > Oh yes, I am wondering what our moderator has to say about the crucial role > of violence or forcible accumulation in the American slave colonies and by > the East India company in the secret history of capitalism (see Amiya > Bagchi, Joseph Inikori, John M. Hobson, Kenneth Pomeranz) . I'll have to > check his book. History is all the rage nowadays. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
