And the bourgeoisie then have to redescribe the Marxist redescription. As in H.G. Woods 1877 "A Treatise on the Law of Master and Servant" and lots of other works. The mental gymnastics show no signs of slowing down.
http://books.google.com/books?id=qrYzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1&lpg=PR1&dq=h.g.+wood+%2B+master+and+servant&source=bl&ots=B8z05GN-UM&sig=wM4lJQNF42CKGQu6okKh5FolIj0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=R_NdUb6GCorBigLA6oEY&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=h.g.%20wood%20%2B%20master%20and%20servant&f=false On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Hinrich Kuhls <[email protected]> wrote: > The industrialization and economic growth would have occured earlier. > Not the argument, but the faster development > would have been dependent on the surmounting of slavery. > > By the way, accumulation of wealth in a capitalist society is not > only possible with political justice, but that's the ordinary way. > > Exploitation within a liberal and just society: that's what Marx > called the conversion of the law of appropriation. > > And in this way Locke's treaties - above all when put in rhymes - > sound like an ode dedicated to those Marxists who believe they have > to rewrite the history of "primitive" accumulation in order to > clarify the specific form of relationship of master and servant in > bourgeois societies. > > At 20:29 04.04.2013, David Shemano wrote: > >>I understand the argument that accumulation of wealth in a >>capitalist society is impossible without exploitation/political >>injustice. But why does it matter whether the political system in >>which the exploitation occurs is slave, feudal, theocratic, >>wage-based, etc.? In other words, if we imagine a counter-factual >>that slavery was abolished in the USA in 1789 (which could have >>happened), the slaves were freed, and became exploited sharecroppers >>at that time, would the industrialization and economic growth that >>occurred later in the 19th Century in the USA not have occurred? I >>assume you say yes and point to the exploitation, which I >>understand, but your argument is then not "dependent" on the >>existence of "slavery." > > _______________________________________________ > 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
