Re: Re: Spain: colonizer and colonized

[DMS <dmschanoes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Both your comments share a single point: that imperialism,
as practiced by Spain in the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th
centuries,acted as a brake on economic development, and the
growth,internally of capital's relations of productions.
I agree.

However, I think Comrade Proyect has developed critical
points about the impact of this establishment of the world
market on Britain, France and capitalism as awhole.  In my
first remarks to LP, I said that I thought the emphasis on
the extraction of gold and silver was "overweighted" in his
presentation of the origins of capitalism, not immaterial.

Also, I think LP's last communication regarding the non-feudal
relations established by Spain in the New World, are insisghtful
and essential to understanding the decline of Spain the
sustained underdevelopment of these colonies.  These relations,
non-feudal,actually employing collective, detached (from land)
labor, are exactly the relations Spain could not support,
and "more" "developed" "capital" systems did, until the
bottom line turned into the red zone.