Jerry, One other thing about this "eurocentrism" issue. It occurred to me that the real question here is whether such "eurocentrism" as Marx may have had (and I suggested he was to a degree eurocentric) invalidates his approach to understanding world history, or strongly undermines it (and if so, in what way). It would appear (I am happy to be corrected on this) that Andre Gunder Frank claims that Marx's "eurocentrism" fatally undermines his conception of history, in which case we need a better approach than historical materialism (or an improved version of historical materialism) in order to understand it. Of course, often a social theory shatters when confronted with the hard empirical data, but at issue here with whether Marx's approach as such is invalidated by what we now know about world history. Regards Jurriaan
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