Re: Yellow River: Facts on File

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>  > Unless you explain the process that creates capitalists driven to
> >  M-C-M', sure.
>
> I gave my version, at length: You have to look at the specifics of local
> history and you have to synthesize that with a world system dimension.
> That's concretely how for example to account for the onset of industrial
> capitalism in England. In the process of this discussion,   I criticised the
> notion that everything happened in some mysterious way in 'the English
> countryside': this is not an explanation in value-theory terms and it
> doesn't fit the historical facts either. You never responded to these
> points, and that's how the discussion ended. I don't want to have it again,
> it'd be like groundhog day or a seminar with Zizek on Lenin.
>
> Mark Jones

How about Brenner + Eric Wolf, _Europe and the People without
History_, especially pp. 50-56 in which Wolf discusses China?

Yoshie