Re: Fw: Re Koop re Frank re the Communist Manifesto: critique

another answer attempt:
follow the Chinee saying ''seek truth from facts" in reality
easier said than done, I grant that.
But seeking it from concepts that MISrepresent reality and/or deviate
analysis from important reality is a sure fire way of leading oneself
down the garden path into a thicket of thorns from which thre is NO
EXIT - while the real world passes by.

agf
.On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, George
Snedeker wrote:

> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 16:57:46 -0500
> From: George Snedeker <snedeker@concentric.net>
> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu
> Subject: Fw: Re Koop re Frank re the Communist Manifesto:  critique
> 
> Capitalism is a theoretical concept. it does not exist any more than any
> other concept. it is not clear to me what A. G. Frank would substitute for
> capitalism as an analytical tool. a brief answer to this question would be
> helpful.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andre Gunder Frank <franka@fiu.edu>
> To: <kjkhoo@pop.jaring.my>
> Cc: <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 11:46 AM
> Subject: Re Koop re Frank re the Communist Manifesto: critique
> 
> 
> > 1. yes indeed. It has long since been the Thacher/Reagan RIGHT
> > who has run off with the capitalist flag and waved it for all it is
> > worth, which to them has been quite a lot. But that is all the more
> > reason for the left to find something better.
> >
> > 2. In front of me above my desk is a foto of 5 personal friends/companeros
> > from chile each of whom was murdered by  Pinochet as they were fighting
> > against his regime and for a humane society. One is also a former student
> > of mine to whose memoory i dedicated two books [anyone can look/see what
> > it says on the dedicatory page]. I do NOT forget them or others, and
> > discarding capitalism as a concept and term in no wise diminishes their
> > sacrifice or my memory
> > gunder frank
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >                ANDRE    GUNDER      FRANK
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> > Senior Fellow                                      Residence
> > World History Center                    One Longfellow Place
> > Northeastern University                            Apt. 3411
> > 270 Holmes Hall                         Boston, MA 02114 USA
> > Boston, MA 02115 USA                    Tel:    617-948 2315
> > Tel: 617 - 373 4060                     Fax:    617-948 2316
> > Web-page:csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/     e-mail:franka@fiu.edu
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               ANDRE    GUNDER      FRANK

Senior Fellow                                      Residence
World History Center                    One Longfellow Place
Northeastern University                            Apt. 3411
270 Holmes Hall                         Boston, MA 02114 USA
Boston, MA 02115 USA                    Tel:    617-948 2315
Tel: 617 - 373 4060                     Fax:    617-948 2316
Web-page:csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/     e-mail:franka@fiu.edu

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