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Re: "Cast Away"



>>> lnp3@xxxxxxxxx 01/04/01 03:03PM >>
The natives are seen either as dangerous and insane--as
Shakespeare's Caliban--or malleable like Crusoe's Man Friday.

(((((((((

CB: Notice in the original Robinsonade ,literary model of the rational economic
individual of classical and neo-classical political economy, the Black worker
only
shows up on Friday after the white worker has already made the primitive
accumulation
during the first 4 days without any help from the Black. This is analogous to
theories
which deny the role of slave and colonial labor in the primitive accumulation
of all
capitalism.






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