andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> Yes, yes, primitive accumulation is in the antechamber
> to capitalism. Once you get through the door, however,
> guns are replaced by contracts.
Yes.
This thread has been jumbled by a sort of metanymic sub-text (intended or not) in too many of the posts. It is absolutely necessary to get absolutely straight as a point of DEPARTURE the absolutely peaceful nature of capitalist coercion. If you don't get that peaceful coercion straight to begin with you will never get a clear and powerful grasp of why capitalism is the bloodiest social system in human history. But to talk about that bloodshed in the same sentence or even the same paragraph or group of paragraphs as you talk about the horror of peaceful coercion is to confuse everything.
Even the bloodshed in the colonies or the bloodshed in the prisons or the bloodshed of ww1 d& ww2 can't be understood unless you first and preeminently understand and discuss and analyze the peaceful non-violent horror of the system.
Carrol