[lbo-talk] [SPAM_ISU] :Re: Of flying cars and the declining rate of profit

[Carrol Cox]

Doug gives (or cites) an excellent definition of historicism -- which is
Graebeer's quite false mode of analysis. Origins of a phenomenon DO NOT
EXPLAIN IT. Historicists assume that origins define meaning. That fallacy
pervades Graeber's thought.. (And I have been reading, or rather listening,
to his book.)

Carrol

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On Jun 5, 2012, at 3:52 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> what do you mean by "hostility to economics"?

The state is always paramount, the first and last cause of everything. So
there's this, and his lack of a discussion of how debt (never credit)
functions under capitalism. Roger Lancaster (an anthropologist) had a nice
comment on Facebook - there's a tendency among anthros to look for
explanations of modern behavior in classic texts and earlier societies and
say that's it, they've explained the phenomenon. So debt hasn't changed all
that much in 5,000 years. Money either.

Doug
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