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Nicola,
Your message is most interesting. Where do you place Charles van Onselen
and his book *Chibaro* which I thought was excellent? I understand he
followed a subsequent path which few of us would want to support, but
nevertheless. Also, wasn't there some good work on the "petit
bourgeoisie" in the black community under apartheid? Also, Fred Curtis
(but outside South Africa) had an long article in the RESEARCH, Volume 7,
1984, " 'Cheap' African Labor-Power and South African Capitalism:
1948-1978".
Actually, your whole comment bears directly on the issue of sectarianism.
If you were saying immediately post-Apartheid what you are saying now, you
would have been called "sectarian" and be dismissed.
On theory, Marx spent more than a decade focusing on theory, the decade
leading up to *Capital*. In fact, I think ~1850-~1868 should be pretty
accurate.
Paul
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nicola taylor <nmtaylor@carmen.murdoch.edu.au> said, on 03/18/00 at 04:50
AM:
>For example, during the
>Apartheid years we had Joe Slovo's 'colonialism of a special type', which
>justified the almost wholesale abandonment of class analysis by academics
>(Dale McKinley was an exception).
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