Jim Devine wrote: > > I didn't really answer Charles' question. Yes, capitalism started in > both the English countryside and in the colonies. But the full-blown > capitalist engine (that now is taking over the whole world in a > different way than was involved in slavery and colonialism) started in > the English countryside. That "engine" is the metaphor used to > describe the process of expanded reproduction described in CAPITAL.
>From the beginning of this debate some years ago there has been an unending confusion of "beginning" with "development." It is as though one party was arguing that sperm fertilized the egg and the other party was arguing no the umbilical cord fed the fetus. Carrol
