[PEN-L:11672] RE: Re: more on col'ism

["Lisa & Ian Murray" <seamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On a Tuesday around 3:35 in the afternoon Capitalism was invented as the
quest for a type of inequality that was different from the previous type of
inequality.


ian
(couldn't resist)

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rod Hay
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> Subject: [PEN-L:11671] Re: more on col'ism
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> Yes they spawned there and for many millennia lived there. It is
> when they
> spread to agriculture that what can be called a capitalist system arises.
> When capitalist principles take over the whole economy, and
> capitalism as a
> "pocket" disappears.
>
> Both sides in the debate I think agree on that. The debate seems to be on
> what caused that spread.
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>
>
>
>       Personally I have always rather liked Lewis Mumford's
> old line (quoted approvingly by Braudel) that,
> "Capitalism was the cuckoo's egg laid in the confines
> of the medieval towns."  For all the talk of what went
> on in the British countryside, it was indeed in urban areas,
> whether Venice, Cairo, Canton, or Calicut that those nests
> of capitalism spawned.
> Barkley Rosser
>
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