[PEN-L:11386] Re: Re: Re: Capitalist development

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 09/20/99 05:18PM >>>Wojtek replies: >This was precisely the point I tried to make by objecting
to the "exploitationist" explanations of the European development.  <

Somehow I missed this. I agree with the rest of what Wojtek said in his two
messages responding to mine.

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Charles: Jim, but isn't exploitation a term of art (science) in describing the extraction of surplus value from laborers ?

Also, note Marx's , the arch historical materialist's , extensive description of the role of force and violence in the origin of capitalism.  Force is a material factor in the process, aside from its moral dimension.

CB



>>> Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 09/20/99 05:18PM >>>