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[kelley]

At 10:32 AM 6/24/02 -0500, Maureen Anderson wrote:
>Carrol:
>>A pure speculation: the notion of an Athenian (or other ancient)
>>capitalism seeped into Marxism from Weber, and is still promulgated by 
>>many for whom "Weber" is a swear word. The late Jim Blaut seems to have 
>>followed Weber in identifying capitalism with any sort of profit-seeking 
>>commerce.
>
>Kelly:
>>except, of course, that weber doesn't claim this at all.
>
>No he doesn't.  In fact he spills a lot of ink explaining why commerce in 
>other eras wasn't like capitalism.  But it's his enframing of the whole 
>issue in terms of factors that "hindered" the free development of markets 
>that Carrol's presumably referring to. As if markets and commerce and 
>cities have built-in momentum in the direction of capitalism if not 
>otherwise impeded.

you're much more generous than i am. i find carrol's behavior as abhorrent 
as i find the behavior of men who claim that feminists say thus and so 
simply because they read someone they admire claim as much.

kelley