Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: No agrarian revo?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:
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> Wood is more one-sided than Brenner in her presentation, though, stressing
> only the "engine."
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That is because Brenner was writing history, Wood was responding to the
political distortions of C.A. Cohen and Laclau. Her later works are
'merely' grounding her argument in _The Retreat from Class_. Hence she
is replying, on the one hand, to technological determinism, and on the
other hand to a reduction of politics to ideology. In this context, only
the engine is relevant, because the question is whether or not that
engine is internally contradictory. If you accept Blaut's arguments, for
example, then you have to assume that there is no reason internal to
capitalism that it should not go on for ever.

That is why most of Blaut's work on eurocentrism reduces to moral
invective: he has despaired of history.

Carrol