Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 19:19:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin-AT-utkux.utcc.utk.edu> Subject: M-I: clarification List, My account is acting funky. I had to postpone the previous message a couple of times and call it back up because sentences were disappearing, etc. Looks like I still hadn't solved the problem when I sent it off. The sentence that was cut off simply noted that Palestine was under Roman rule at that time. The second sentence about wage labor and capital being a necessary but not sufficient condition was meant to stand alone. Lew has an undialectical and very mechanical view of what constitutes economic structure and process. Capitalism is a social relation. Lew sees only some necessary components and leaps to an unwarranted conclusion. Moreover, and this was what I was really asking, even if we suppose that capitalist relations existed in the Soviet Union, it is a huge leap to conclude from the mere presence of capitalist relations that a society is capitalist without any evidence. My previous error in supposing the Soviet Union was state capitalist is precisely because of an insufficient understanding of what capitalism is. Andrew Austin --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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