From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-gis.net> Subject: Re: BHA: Radical Chains Indeed Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:12:24 -0400 Hi all-- I'm not sure what is desired as a sustained critique of Hume, but there do seem to be some fair passages in both RTS and SRHE. Re markets, I'm a little puzzled by the discussion, especially Howard's position, which seems to say that markets imply capitalism. My understanding was always that the mode of production conditions the mode of distribution (not vice versa), and that there are and have been plenty of markets in non-capitalist societies (e.g. in classical Athens, where the dominant mode of production was slavery). Money may be necessary in capitalism, but it's used elsewhere and a society is only capitalist if *labor power* is commodified, no? --- Tobin Nellhaus nellhaus-AT-mail.com "Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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