Re: Re: The Vulnerable Planet (was Re: suburbia)

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>Yoshie:
>>>Looking at the rise & decline of Mayan civilization allows us to see
>>>the pre-capitalist dialectic of population & environment under a
>>>tributary mode of production more clearly than looking at the Aztecs.
>>
>>No, Yoshie. The classic Mayan civilization had disintegrated long before
>>the arrival of the Spaniards.
>
>That's exactly the point.
>
>Yoshie

NO, Yoshie, this is not the point at all. You cited John Bellamy Foster
about environmentally unsustainable practices in Mayan society and I
corrected you with more recent research. If you are making some other point
about "disintegration", then please supply scholarly data to support
whatever point you are trying to make, which frankly is lost on me at this
point. That Mayan women went around pregnant and barefoot? Is that your
point? If so, then I am afraid there is not much to discuss.

Louis Proyect
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