[Marxism] Do words matter? [was Re: Hedges: The AmericanEmpireIs Bankrupt]

[S. Artesian]

You're the one missing the point.  It's not about technology, it's about the 
development and degree of social relations, property relations of 
production, of a type-- of a type approaching, manifesting the essential 
matrix of capitalist accumulation as analyzed in capital.

I don't use the word "advanced" by itself.  I use it only with "capitalism." 
Perhaps that, that specific social relation of production is beyond your 
ken, but that's your problem.  We are talking about the depth, breadth, 
degree of capitalist development.  In this regard, the UK, despite its lower 
GDP, despite its lower gross industrial output, is more developed than 
China.

Indeed, based on everything you have written, from your "plague on both your 
houses theorizing,"  to your argument that domestic labor in family raising 
is capitalist labor, that is exactly your problem.


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From: "Jon Cloke" <copito61 at googlemail.com>
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