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Re: Ricardo Duchesne on Ellen Meiksins Wood
by Louis Proyect
25 September 2003 16:42 UTC
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Charles Jannuzi wrote:
What Proyect needs to do is post a summary of his thesis instead of links to
rather rambling essays that do not cohere as one piece. It's one thing to
undercut theory-driven superstructures about history writ large, it's
another thing to have a coherent theory oneself. I don't undestand Proyect's
theory and must ask for a summary if he wishes to discuss it rationally.
And is his theory specific to the 19th century US or is he trying to
contribute to the philosophy of history too?
I am not sure what you need clarification on. I posted a review of Ricardo Duchesne's review of Ellen Meiksins Wood's "Origins of Capitalism", which contained virtually none of my own ideas on the topic.

If you are referring to my replies to Charles Post, I can summarize as follows:

1. If the Brenner thesis hinges on market relations as a sine qua non for capitalism, then the American Civil War does not bear it out as Post alleged. With an outcome that eventually resulted in debt peonage, convict labor, sharecropping and KKK terror to keep blacks from going North, the only term that can describe this is "extra-economic" coercion, which Brenner and Wood associate with precapitalist societies.

2. I challenge the notion of a bourgeois-democratic revolution in the Civil War. In doing so, I try to apply some of the insights found in Karl Marx's writings on the abortive German revolution.

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