weber

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Wed Dec 6 18:43:54 PST 2000


At 08:18 PM 12/6/00 -0600, Carrol Cox wrote:


>kelley wrote:
>
> >
> > Weber follows Marx in this, except for two components. Both argued that
> > capitalism requires a pool of formally free but economically propertyless
> > labor; the sale of factors of production on the market; and the
> > concentration of factors of prod in the hands of entrepreneurs.
>
>This won't do. We are talking about the *origins* of capitalism

no, you are. that's what you care about. i do not. neither did weber.


>-- and
>if you list these factors as "requirements" in this sense, then you are saying
>that capitalism has to exist before capitalism could exist.

do you understand the difference between advancing a causal theory and elaborating conditions? good. weber isn't and never has advanced a theory as to the origins of capitalism.

i have read the work of which you speak.



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