gary teeple wrote: > I would interpret this passage, following Marx, to mean that the formation > of the Bank of England came at a time when the early accumulation of capital > to create a national hoard, carried out in part through the burning of women > of means, had been more or less accomplished, and so attention shifted to > protecting the accumulated capital, the coining of money, creation of > credit, and monopoly manipulation by the speculators who formed the Bank -- > hence death to forgers who threatened this monopoly.
I think that's right. But is it true that the accused witches were "of means"? Wasn't it more a matter of punishing perceived social deviants? -- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
