1. Wallerstein wants all to hold the tiller firm. that means continuing in
the same direction, which he seems to find aceptable, except when he
criticizes where we are going, eg at the 1996 ASA and in the G.
Commission Report. I find that direzction [and where we have been]
unacceptable, and as evidence submit
2. Khoo Kay Jin whose p;osting is even more classical and eurocentric than
Wallerstein's in MIS-reading the events of the 16-19th centuries and
rejecting the need for a realy holistic world history, so that I propose
3. shifting direction of the tiller as by, for instance, books forthcoming
by Ken Pomeranz and Bin Wong at UC IRvine, not to mention A.G Frank, which
RE-read/write this history from a wider systemic and comparative
pespective on the past, and thereby for the future, which does indeed take
exception to some "exceptionalisms" claimed by Wallerstein and Khoo,
folloowing Marx and Weber, et al, while waiting for
4. an altogether NEW boat to be built that Al Bergesen calls for but does
not [yet?] offer any new shipyard/s or construction/ive? methods for and
5. to make NO mention of the unmentionable posting by Warran Wagar
by which "have you stopped beating your wife? Answer: I am not married"
pales in comparison, but yes to take exception to Wallerstein's claim that
claiming to refute some exceptionalities alledgedly turns evil into good.
Nonsense! and Non-sequitur!!
respectfully submitted [with delay due to absence and now in rush] by
gunder frank