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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:29 PM Original message |
A question for Marxists about reinvestment and "capitalism." |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm so confused by your question. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Let's not personalize the discussion. A focus on "who" can run up against the rule against |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. What?? How did I "personalize the discussion?" |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:02 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Okay, can't you say that without bringing "who" into it? |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:06 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I'm not an economist nor a historian so I can't make that statement with absolute certainty. |
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Veritas_et_Aequitas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
3. I'm not a Marxist, but I am a medievalist. |
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Veritas_et_Aequitas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. And, of course, that's just European civilization. |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 12:57 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. What about invasions? Didn't invaders often bring new technologies with them? |
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Veritas_et_Aequitas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 01:10 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Yes, but I'm not familiar of an instance of this happening wtih agriculture |
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IrateCitizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 09:06 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. The Norman conquest was aided by Viking invasion... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 09:09 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Vikings: the original useful idiots. |
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gravity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
10. Traditional agriculture isn't very capital intensive. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 11:47 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. When you write that "there wasn't much capital out there", |
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gravity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 05:11 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Just that the amount of capital didn't require much investment |
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IrateCitizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
14. Your question doesn't make sense... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 04:14 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. "The printing press had no direct affect on agriculture." |
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JohnGalt300 (7 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-27-08 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
17. ok |
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