I don't entirely disagree with you. I regard the empire as the center of capital -- a center that shifted from Holland, to England, and then to the US.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > This response is to the subject line, not the substance of the post. > > I am startled and even a bit dismayed at how few posts on lbo or pen-l > show any acquaintance at all with _Empire of Capital_ by Ellen Meiksins > Wood. If you take that work seriously, the phrase "decline of empire" is > absurd. The empire is of Capital, and that empire is expanding and more > powerful than ever, no spot in the world free of it. > > In my personal opinion she is the foremost Marxist writing in English > today. To ignore her work is simply to ignore the substance of > contemporay Marxist thought. > > Carrol > _______________________________________________ > 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
