broadly speaking what interpretation was that, and what was proposed instead?
She (along with Brenner who substantially originated the thesis before moving away from it in his later work) argued that, rather than capitalism developing in early britain out of external factors (increasingly extended geographical trade, war, plunder etc) that it developed along internal factors - namely class struggle between peasantry and landlords that forced the latter to modernise and adopt management techniques, increase labour-productiivty, invest in technology etc that led to early capitalism.
Bung it up, i've got a perfect version of it i can post if it's better than yours - i expect they're the same though. Re-read the intro to it yesterday and was toying with ploughing through the whole thing over the weekend but then remembered i've got so much other stuff to get through.
When i was in the AF i tried to produce an internal education timeline+reading guide for our side of things(Anarchist comunism-->pre-WW1 syndicalism-->WW1 ultra-lefts--> council communists+unionen-->dutch-german left-->italian left-->platform and organised libertarian communism-->post war bordiguists (and then the spining off into various competing groups)-->socalisme ou barbarism-->forest-johnson+ related groups-->early operaismo-->red and black group in france-->situationists--> french splits from bordiguism--solidarity-->the italian developments+red notes stuff-->combate and Portuguese groups - you get the picture). But it became too much to cover each group/development properly within the required historical and other contexts (and the above is an edited version of who would need to be included) and just too...big. I must try and dig out the file if i can find it. I Sent the proposal around a few book publishers to some interest but, as often happens, the real world intervened. And that's just for a limited minority tradition, never mind the larger one...My thoughts exactly!
It'd be great if, one day, butchersapron or someone could produce a short "must read" list of a dozen or so accessible texts for those of us who'll never get through the more comprehensive folders of stuff.
I do realise that's likely an impossible task though!
