[PEN-L:28691] Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, they were for dispossession, but Steuart especially wanted to pace
the process.

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 05:55:27PM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> > Regarding the other Michael P.'s idea about the gradual release of
> > people from agriculture, in researching classical political economy in
> > my book, The Invention of Capitalism, I found that the old classical
> > political economists were very much concerned that the dispossession of
> > the people in the countryside not occur too precipitously.
>
> Including people like Smith and Stewart?  I thought I remember you saying
> they were for it because it kept wages low, and because subsistence was
> the biggest obstacle to getting people to submit to capitalist discipline
> -- with Stewart saying this overtly and Smith by omission.
>
> Am I remembering right?  But perhaps they still thought there could be too
> much of a "good thing?"
>
> Michael
>

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