Lou posted:
From the introduction to "The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century",
edited by I.A.A. Thompson and Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (Cambridge University
Press, 1994):
snip
Yet Spains role in early-modern Europe was pivotal. The economy of
Castile, which was four parts or more of
With charter schools public schools managed by
private entities firmly established and
multiplying, some of their advocates are floating a
new idea: charter colleges.
...
How charter colleges might operate is unclear, since
there are no formal proposals yet. But if they
operated like
From a recent Human Rights Watch report:
Full text at:
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/eca/kosovo-election-bck.htm
The Pre-Election Climate in Kosovo
More than a year after the end of the war in Kosovo, the security situation
in the province remains a cause for serious concern. Attacks on
At 08:53 PM 10/23/2000 -0500, you wrote:
So which states are against altered states? Utah?
Utah makes it very hard to get booze (you have to buy it in state-owned
stores), but there are a lot of states (like Nebaraska, I believe) that are
influenced by the Protestant "dry" or teetotaler
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2000:
Regional and State unemployment rates were stable during September, with the
Midwest posting the lowest regional jobless rate in the country at 3.5
percent, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. All
four regions reported little or
Analysis of Bush and Gore budgets finds that by
FY2010, Federal spending as share of GDP is
17.0 and 17.4 percent, respectively. Presently
it's 18.2. Note that part of the difference is
that Gore proposes twice as much military spending
growth as Bush ($100b v. $50b).
Marxists Internet Archive Updates http://www.marxists.org/admin/new/ 21
October, 2000:
A new section of Classics of Political Economy texts has opened in the
Reference Writers Archive, including these recently marked-up titles:
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
The
*The Origin of Capitalism* is an all-too-brief (131-page) book. The
grand title is more a reflection of absolute conviction (and defiance
against alternate explanations) than an indication of someone
secured that they have established thorough control over the field. If
the book is small,
The view that Walter Rodney, Eric Williams, or contemporary proponents of the
Williams-Rodney thesis such as Darity or Ronald Bailey, see capitalism in terms
of "opportunity" as opposed to coercion, or that they are promoting a model of
Smithian commercialism, or that they see the absence of
"Noncapitalist" is better than "precapitalist" but even "noncapitalist" still
forces these "other" forms to be described, analyzed, explored in terms of
capitalism. Unfortunately, as Yoshie points out, it is extremely hard to get
around using pre- or non-capitalist as shorthand. Partly it is
Labor that produces commodities that feed capital accumulation within a
generalized system of commodity production and capital accumulation is not
pre-capitalist, is not non-capitalist. It is capitalist through and through. It
is perhaps the archetypal capitalism.
Africans Enslaved in the U.S.,
[was: Re: [PEN-L:3459] RE: Re: Brenner Redux (was Re: Russell R. Menard
on Eric Williams)]
At 05:21 PM 10/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
"Noncapitalist" is better than "precapitalist" but even "noncapitalist" still
forces these "other" forms to be described, analyzed, explored in terms of
capitalism.
[was: Re: [PEN-L:3460] RE: [PEN-L:3457] Re: Brenner, C. L. R. James,
José Carlos Mariátegui (w as Re: Brenner Redux) ]
At 05:37 PM 10/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
Labor that produces commodities that feed capital accumulation within a
generalized system of commodity production and capital
From the Guardian website.
Staff and agencies Tuesday October 24, 2000
Yugoslavia's new president has admitted for the first time that Yugoslav
army and police forces committed widespread killings in Kosovo last year.
VVojislav Kostunica's remarks, in a television interview released early
That is the BBC headline over the report of the House of Commons Select
Committee on the Kosovo war.
The Commons Defence Select Committee report said the UK air forces were
badly equipped and responsible for less than 5% of the Nato sorties flown.
Britain's major contribution to the
At 06:40 PM 10/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
Like J. H. Elliott in his celebrated article on the decline of Spain three
years later, they pointed to the excessive concentration of historians
on external influences on the Spanish economy and the relative neglect of
internal factors. Agrarian
"I am ready to... accept the guilt for all those people who have been
killed," Mr Kostunica said. "For what Milosevic had done, and as a Serb, I
will take responsibility for many of these, these crimes."
He'd better. Or else he won't get paid off from the west.
Louis Proyect
Marxism mailing
So you're saying that Brenner and other historians are ignorant of what
happened in Spain. This -- ignorance -- is exactly the kind of thing that
professional historians are quite willing to admit to. But given this
_general_ ignorance, we can't presume that Brenner is either right or wrong.
En relación a [PEN-L:3467] Re: Kostunica admits Kosovo killings,
el 24 Oct 00, a las 19:22, Louis Proyect dijo:
"I am ready to... accept the guilt for all those people who have been
killed," Mr Kostunica said. "For what Milosevic had done, and as a
Serb, I will take responsibility for many
En relación a [PEN-L:3447] Re: Re: Re: Re: Chemical weapons ale,
el 24 Oct 00, a las 7:23, Jim Devine dijo:
BTW, the whole "dry" movement, which stimulated Canadian exports from
1920 or so to the early 1930s by imposing Prohibition on the US, is a
prime example of the limits of standard
At 07:29 PM 10/24/2000 -0400, you wrote:
When I am ready to say something [about Spain], you will know it. But I
won't say anything until I have a chance to review the
book carefully. In any case, I've heard 16th century Spain referred to on
PEN-L as a country that was ill-equipped to take
The URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/news/price.htm
Is Kostunica setting the stage for a phony fuel-shortage melodrama?
by Jared Israel (10-21-2000)
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
Note: The following table is based on reports from employees at two Belgrade
supermarkets.
The URL for this article is
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/triples.htm
Kostunica Coalition Drives Up Prices Blames...Milosevic
by Michel Chossudovsky (10-19-2000)
www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]
"Immediately after taking the office, the new government shall abolish all
types
From my understanding of 17th century Spain was that it was quite
well equipped to take over most of the New World, looting it and
enslaving (or enserfing) many people. But the empire wasn't set up
to turn that loot into capitalist development, so that they ended up
importing crucial
Do any of you know about the trade pact with Jordon? The NY Times says
that labor approved.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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well it must be true...
Do any of you know about the trade pact with Jordan? The NY Times says
that labor approved.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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CB: OK , but I don't get how this particular fact impacts the
question as to whether or not slavery should be analyzed as a
component part of capitalism in combination with wage-labor.
Indentured servitude might be analyzed as a component part of
capitalism too. As I said, capitalism would be
Labor that produces commodities that feed capital accumulation within a
generalized system of commodity production and capital accumulation is not
pre-capitalist, is not non-capitalist. It is capitalist through and
through. It
is perhaps the archetypal capitalism.
Mat
Mat, with your
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* Negro slavery was more or less patriarchal _so long as
consumption was directed to immediate local needs_. But in
proportion as the export of cotton became of interest to the United
States, patriarchal slavery was, in the words of Marx, 'drawn into
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* Negro slavery was more or less patriarchal _so long as
consumption was directed to immediate local needs_. But in
proportion as the export of cotton became of interest to the United
States, patriarchal slavery was, in the words of Marx, 'drawn
Yoshie Furuhashi quoted:
Ideas, of course, are not "national" in themselves. But every
Marxist (at least, every Marxist!) should know that ideas which are
not roted in the actual stream of human life within their own
people will hardly be anything but an exotic overgrowth. This is,
in my
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**
To determine if C. L. R. James is empirically accurate, one must
really study the _evolution_ of slavery: how the number of slaves
increased; what slaves produced, what kind of work they performed,
what the median number of slaves owned by a master
From Ellen Meiksins Wood's "The Origin of Capitalism" (MR, 1999):
Marxist historians have persuasively demonstrated, against many arguments
to the contrary, that the greatest crime of European empire, slavery, made
a major contribution to the development of industrial capitalism. But here,
too,
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