Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re: weber)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Dec 6 10:48:27 PST 2000


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>It is anachronistic & culturalist to make capitalist rationality --
>racialized into "European rationality" by Weber & Co. -- the cause
>of capitalism.

So do you buy Blaut's "prevailing winds" theory of the rise of European imperialism? Or did something happen internally in Europe that made primitive accumulation on a global scale possible?

Doug



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