[lbo-talk] RIP Chalmers Johnson

[Miles Jackson]

On 11/23/2010 9:27 PM, Eubulides wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Carrol Cox<cbcox at ilstu.edu>  wrote:
>
>> There was no tendency whatever for anything remotely like capitalist
>> relations to emerge in developed and productive empires.
>> Carrol
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>
> That's irrelevant. Capitalism is no more an aberration than so-called
> Feudalism or Mercantilism or Zen Buddhism.

Those are historical accidents too; there was nothing necessary or 
natural about the emergence of Zen Buddhism in human history.  It 
happened because of a complex series of historical contingencies.   (Are 
you assuming the word "aberration" implies that there is some True Path 
of Human Progress that capitalism has corrupted?  I don't think C. does.)

Miles