I would suggest that when you think about your question and do your analysis, you should differentiate (1) capitalism from modernization, and (2) theological Islam from cultural behavior of various Moslems. It is fully possible that theology and culture were no real impediment to commerce in the relatively static pre-Modern world, but were impediments to incorporating the dynamic/revolutionary aspects of the scientific and industrial revolutions.
David Shemano --- Original Message--- To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> From: Louis Proyect <[email protected]> Sent: 8/04/2011 8:17AM Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Is Islam Compatible with Capitalism? >> On 8/4/2011 11:10 AM, Eugene Coyle wrote: >> > The first paragraph, written by someone so privileged he doesn't know he >> > is, was >> enough for me. >> > The neoconservatives have reached the end of their history. >> > >> > Gene Coyle >> > >> >> I was too hasty. The article backs the thesis that Islam held back >> capitalism. And on the AKP, it has this to say: >> >> Fueling this economic expansion is a new generation of >> entrepreneurs from Anatolia, in eastern Turkey. These >> businesspeople are conservative Muslims, but they arent >> extremists. The Anatolians are astonishing; no one can say for >> sure how they arrived on the scene as the dynamic engine of >> Turkish modernity. Ask an Anatolian entrepreneur about this >> success and he may credit a strong work ethic, combined with >> family values ingrained in the Muslim faith. Or he may mention the >> business traditions of Anatolia, a crossroads between Asia and >> Europe under the Ottoman Empire. Pamuk, a secular Turk, points to >> mundane factors like the Anatolians low labor costs and Turkeys >> proximity to the vast European market: Turkey now exports 25 >> percent of its national production, up from 3 percent in 1980. >> Whatever the reason for the Anatolian breakthrough, Islam has not >> impeded it. >> >> "Whatever the reason for the Anatolian breakthrough, Islam has not >> impeded it." >> >> I should say not. Maybe I'll get to that Rodinson stuff sooner >> than later. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >>
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