Re: Musings of a Brennerite

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lou:

>  >In what sense is Andy Daitsman a "Brennerite" given the above very
>>un-Brenner-like remark on "the other capitalisms"?  Does he cite
>>Brenner to support his musings?
>>
>>Yoshie
>
>In the same sense that Genovese is a Dobbsian. When I cited Genovese to
>that effect, you merely replied that no-no, Genovese doesn't understand
>Dobbs and has him all wrong. It is a waste of time to try to connect the
>dotted lines between Dobbs and Genovese or Daitsman and Brenner, because
>you are uncomfortable with the reactionary logic. Sorry, I can't help you
>with that.

Well, the idea that European capitalism came into contact with &
vanquished "the other capitalisms" is entirely foreign to, nay, the
_opposite_ of Brenner & Wood's theory of the origin of capitalism.
There is no plural capitalism*s* in Brenner & Wood.

>As you know, Yoshie, when there was a debate on Blaut-Brenner on PEN-L, it
>unleashed a tidal wave of reactionary beliefs from Wojtek Sokolowski's
>oddball marriage of Barrington Moore and hatred for the black liberation
>movement to Ricardo Duchesne's outspoken belief that capitalism has a
>progressive role to play in places like Puerto Rico or India. If you put
>Daitsman's crackpot defense of Pinochet side-by-side with Ricardo's
>procapitalist Marxism, there's virtually nothing to distinguish them apart.

I agree that Wojtek Sokolowski & Ricardo Duchesne are both
reactionary & hate black liberation movements.  Wojtek, however,
claims that the Red Army & socialism were the best thing that ever
happened to Eastern Europe -- a claim opposite to Ricardo's.

In any case, you know I have written a number of posts -- some of
them just a couple of days ago! -- in opposition to Wojtek & Ricardo
on the question of racism, Eurocentrism, etc.  You also know that I
have made use of Brenner & Wood in my criticism of racism &
Eurocentrism.  In fact, I like B & W because their works demolish
racism & Eurocentrism much better than other Marxists'.

This being the case, I object to your attempt to class Brenner with
Wojtek, Ricardo, Andy Daitsman, etc.

Yoshie