Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:05:42 -0500 From: james m blaut <70671.2032-AT-CompuServe.COM> Subject: Re: M-I: peasants and technology James Heartfield says: "The fact that US agriculture not only sustains a population of 200+ million, but also exports grain... does not seem to figure in ...[Blaut's] discussion." The difference is a small matter of genocide which emptied North America, allowing agriculture on very large pieces of land. The larger the farm, broadly, the more it will produce -- areal productivity, not labor productivity. After WW2 corporate agriculture was able to build up land productivity using new technology -- which is inaccessible to peasant farmers. En lucha Jim Blaut --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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