Re: [Marxism] Re: Asiatic Mode of Production

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fred:
> Also, I think, the survivals of communal land ownership made the
> internal development  as well as relative isolation were obstacles to
> the development from internal forces of capitalist production -- not
> necessarily insuperable but serious.

But Kenneth Pomeranz points out that there was *more* private ownership of
land in China than in England at the very time capitalism was supposedly
being born in England. See "The Great Divergence".


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