[lbo-talk] RIP Chalmers Johnson

[Carrol Cox]

Some 2500 years of advanced "civilization over Eurasia and North Africa. Why
did capitalism not appear in such vigorous and advanced cultures as China.
As the Arab empires. And so forth. Instead it emerged  in a peripheral and
wretched place as England. And even then could not really flourish, even in
England, for several centuries. And even after theexplosion of English
capitalism, it wasn't until the last 50 years that capitalist relation
became global.

A whole series of contingencies 'trumping' the great power and productive
capacity of the non-capitalist societies of the world.

There was no tendency whatever for anything remotely like capitalist
relations to emerge in developed and productive empires.
Carrol

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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:


>> Remind us again; what's the non-aberrate baseline historical epoch
>> which facilitates your judgement that capitalism is an aberration?
>>
>> Ian
>>
>
> Umm--hundreds of thousand of years of human prehistory?
>
> Miles

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With that rhetorical tactic, *any* epoch can be redescribed and
repurposed as an aberration. Are chordates an aberration? Are lungs an
aberration? How about spotted animals as opposed to striped ones?
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