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

[Charles Brown]

>>> furuhashi.1 at osu.edu 12/05/00 10:32PM >>

In place of Weber's anachronistic "theory," I recommend Robert 
Brenner's & Ellen Wood's non-Eurocentric accounts of the origin of 
capitalism.  Brenner writes:

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After reading Brenner, Wood (_The Origin of Capitalism_, NY: Monthly 
Review Press, 1999), & Blaut, read Michael Perelman's _The Invention 
of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of 
Primitive Accumulation_ (Durham: Duke UP, 2000); Eric Williams' 
_Capitalism and Slavery_ (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina P, 1994 
[1944]); Samir Amin's _Accumulation on a World Scale; a Critique of 
the Theory of Underdevelopment_ (Trans. Brian Pearce, NY: Monthly 
Review Press, 1974) & _Eurocentrism_ (NY: Monthly Review Press, 
1989); etc.

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CB: Yes, and before reading all of these you might want to read Karl Marx's discussion of these issues in _Capital_.