There's an analogy between witch-burning & southern lynching. Quite a few of the latter were to get rid of Black businessmen who competed too well with white merchants. One result of witch burning was to drive women out of the brewing business. I believe there were other occupations from which women were driven by the threat of being charged with witchcraft. Carrol
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 12:37 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Fwd: Missing Passage in English Versions of Capital 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 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
