Re: [PEN-L:3839] Re: Marx quote???

1996-04-19 Thread Anthony D'Costa
Dear Comrades: Having had no response to my queries I am sending them again. These queries are intended to link the internationalization of capital and uneven development, making devalorization (a response to crisis?) and capitalist development part of the overall accumulation process. Any

[PEN-L:3839] Re: Marx quote???

1996-04-18 Thread rakesh bhandari
.. It is something to the effect that "the handmill give us ..." feudalism, and the steam engine gives us industrial capital. It's in *the Poverty of Philosophy*, as Gil just pointed out. Perhaps the more important example of 'technological determinism' is Marx's discussion of the change

Re: [PEN-L:3839] Re: Marx quote???

1996-04-18 Thread Anthony D'Costa
On a related note, what sort of studies exist that specifically discuss devalorization of capital (not dumping technology in the Third World) but rather consciously destroying physical capital by capitalists. At the abstract we can argue that this is necessary to rejuvenate the capitalist order