File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1998/marxism-international.9802, message 13


Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 20:38:28 -0500
From: james m blaut <70671.2032-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: M-I: AG Frank etc. again


Barkley Rosseer:

The Icelanders had no real influence on the outside world i n spite of the
lively trading system with Western Europe, and all of this quite late.
There were many "parliaments" around the world. I'm not up on Viking
history so I can't comment, but it smells like another Eurocentric myth. I
thought the Vikings murdered Brits instead of in structing them in
democracy.

As to China vis-a-vis "the Rise of Europe, I discuss this at some length in
my book. The key fact is the absolute strengthening of Europe due to the
looting of America and then the slave plantations. China did not stasgnate.

Jim Blaut  


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