It does somakesense. To say that it was an accident means it was not intended, planned, or otherwise necessary. What's your problem with that?
Nor does it makes sense to say capitalism was
>an aberration-compared to what?
>
Feudalism. Brenner argues that cap emerged in England and not France or
Poland because of a special concatenation of historical circumastances that
made it rational for English asset holders to make sure that land and labor
became alienable. This included: the Black Death and the decline of
population in the the 14th C., the structure of the common law and the
nature of land tenure in England as opposed to elsewhere, and a bunch of
other, uh, accidents.
jks
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