Re: the mita

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let's keep this under control.  Jim gave a very nice description of Marx's
analysis of the mode of production.  Lou asked him to relate those
abstract topics to Latin America, which Marx and most of us do not know
all that well.

Marx was not familiar with the internet either.

If Lou is correct, then we might ask what use Marx might be if we want to
understand something other than 19th C. western Europe.

It seems to me that Marx is useful, but we must be careful to avoid merely
calling up various categories and applying them mechanically.

I did not think that Jim was doing that, which is where I think that I
disagree with Lou.

I confess that Marx's movement from C-C to M-M ..... C-C' always seemed to
be one of the more interesting of Marx's insights for me.

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 04:27:59PM -1000, Stephen E Philion wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> > Mercantilism = Code of Hammurabi = Kelly Girls?
>
>
> Why not? For you Brenner=Kautsky
>                  Graduate students of Ellen Wood=Fool
> 		 Raymond Lau=Trotskyist Sect leafleter
> 		 Zeitlin=Pinochet....
>
> Steve
>

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