>>> dhenwood at panix.com 12/06/00 01:48PM >>>
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?
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CB: I think it was use of force and violence externally that made primitive accumulation on a global scale possible. Would have been difficult to accumulate globally by only doing things internal to Europe.