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>So, depending upon contingent outcomes of the long drawn-out process of
>_class struggles_ & class formations in Europe, Africa, & the so-called
>New World, (a) it is possible that capitalist social relations might have
>emerged elsewhere in the world before the British conquered much of the
>world; and (b), alternatively, capitalism might _not_ have emerged _at
>all_, and we would be living in a world unlike the one in which we
>struggle now.
actually, this is precisely what weber's analysis suggests.