[Buddha-l] Karma and capitalism

[jkirk]

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> You might want to reconsider taking up this gauntlet. The nature of 
> Capitalism as a uniquely modern phenomenon that was completely 
> inconceivable prior to the industrial revolution is not some kind of "ad 
> hoc" theory based on "questionable distinctions". Marx and Smith (who 
> agreed almost completely on matters of "pure" economics) were both quite 
> clear in their belief that Capitalism was a new thing that had never 
> existed before in human history - and that it was limited to those 
> nations in which the industrial revolution had completely transformed 
> "the means of production". India - like most of the world - has only 
> experienced the pointy end of Capitalist stick - and that only as a 
> result of its engulfment into the British Empire (and that, as 
> previously stated, more than 10 centuries after the the spread of 
> Buddhism along the Silk Road).
> 
> - Curt
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Quite right--the evidence is rather incontestable.
Joanna