[PEN-L:11371] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: colonialism

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:

>  If they were so, it was
> because of something going on inside of Europe, not some
> random accident.

Barkley, Yoshie has posted lately (perhaps on lbo) in reference to
the role of contingency in human history (echoing Gould's arguments
on the role of contingency in biological evolution). Do you reject
out of hand the possibility of random accident? The possibility does
not of course mean that in any given case it was a matter of
contingency.

Carrol