Drafting my next blog post. Sure is turning out a bit more ::L'internationale plays:: than I normally think about these things. Part of that is order-of-operations: all of the bad exploitative elites are in pt. 2, but the positive impacts of connectivity and markets are in pt. 3
That's not to say that other economic thinkers haven't hewn useful rock out of the mostly useless mountain of Das Kapital - they have. But I've never found the edifice itself useful.
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OFC I am not an economist, but a historian. So when I say useful, I mean "does this theory give me a template to help me to understand interactions in a historical society." Even Finley recognized that direct application to the ancient world didn't work, and he was hard Marxist
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Sigh. Lack of an edit button. Read as: "direct application [of a purely Marxist framework to the economy of the] ancient world didn't work" And the motion on the debate since Finley has been even further away from a Marxist view.
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