Re: [Marxism] Forwarded from Anthony (reply to Julio Huato)

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Julio Huato wrote:
> Can you name the speculators?  I'm just curious.

Couldn't dig it up through Google. Will try to track it down.

> > That being said, these arguments do enjoy wide support in academia.
>
>
> Where?

I was citing Jim Blaut:

The New Left Review paper, unlike the essays in Past and Present, was a
polemic. And an effective one. Euro-Marxists and Eurocentric
conservatives give some credit to this essay for what they view as the
demise of dependency theory and the decline of Third-World-oriented
approaches to Marxism in the European academy. According to M. Cooper
(1980: 81-82), Brenner showed that "Sweezy et al. have put forth nothing
but a restatement of Adam Smith's mechanistic and deterministic analysis
of the transition from feudalism to capitalism." According to John
Browett (1980: 111), "the age of the radical-liberal dependency
formulations has come to an end," thanks in part, at least, to Brenner's
critique. According to Alan Macfarlane (1988: 191), Frank, Sweezy, and
Wallerstein have been "demolished" by Brenner. And Brenner's critique
also came to the rescue of standard economic development theory at a
time when its diffusion-of-economic-modernization formula was being cast
aside in favor of anti-colonial, anti-foreign, and socialist strategies,
most of them justified by Marxism. The development theorists cited
Brenner and announced: Marxism is on our side.

full: http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/Blaut/brenner.htm


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