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Re: Re: Unfree Labor, Subsistence, & Dependent Development (was Re Postscript...)

Jim Devine:
>Of course, a lot of this is political: the reason why hacienda and
>plantations were able to block the development of industrial capitalism was
>because they usually controlled the government (until after the
>liberal/conservative civil wars that plagued Latin America). On the other
>hand, peasants were sometimes able to assert power and achieve some
>victories, as with the Mexican Revolution after 1911 or the French
>Revolution of 1789.

False. Anglo-American imperialism is the main explanation. Read Galeano.

Louis Proyect
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