Re: Re: Re: Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re: weber)

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:

> Enclosing land is utterly inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.
> Spain enclosed land all through the 15th and 16th century but did not "take
> off".

Spain also became colonialist and didn't "take off." Ditto Portugal.
The Netherlands sank and Britain rose, though both were colonial
powers. Germany was only a middling imperial power but became an
industrial giant. So this:

> England took off because it became
> colonialist. Mexico failed to take off because it was a victim of
> neocolonialism. Period. Case close.

seems a bit oversimplified - and Mexico's irrelevant to the question
because it was clearly subordinated for a long long time, and
continues to be.

Doug