File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_2000/bhaskar.0004, message 73


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




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