From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Thu Nov 23 2006 - 12:11:00 EST
>>Primitive communism and slavery are modes of production, I think, which >>are possible for other species. Feudalism and capitalism, I think, >> aren't >>... for a variety of reasons. > This is just racism--so called primitives and slaves aren't really > humans; serfs, dependant peasantries and formally free wage workers > are. Such an idea is only possible on the basis of the invidious > distinctions built up by racist Euro-American culture. This is just laughable. The concrete, historical circumstances having to do with why feudalism and capitalism can't be imagined as existing in non-human species have to do with specific forms of property relations, ownership, money, markets, etc. There doesn't have to be money or markets (including a slave market) for slavery to exist. Capitalism, however, _requires_ monetary exchange, etc. -- conditions which are specific to a certain period in human history. In solidarity, Jerry
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