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

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Dec 6 18:12:45 PST 2000



>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.

Enclosure + chattel slavery = primitive accumulation = the origin of capitalism. The rise & development of the dominance of instrumental reason (the Benthamite part of "Freedom, Equality, Property, & Bentham") are an effect, not the cause, of the capitalist ensemble of social relations.

Yoshie



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