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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>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