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>From what I've seen, David presents a pretty convincing case about Carlyle. 
Based on his recommendation, I read the N* Question and found it thoroughly 
racist. 
 
The problem, as Larry pointed out, is in extending that thinking.   
Pat Buchanan opposed the WTO.  Pat Buchanan is a racist.  But  
we cannot move from that information to say that the WTO is  
antiracist or that opponents of the WTO necessarily share  
Buchanan's racist views.   
 
In another sense, David is correct.  The early British classical  
political economists were as willing to exploit their own people as  
they were the Irish or the Africans.  Smith, for example, had a  
vision that market forces would whittle everybody down to have a  
common petty bourgeois attitude and to function as compliant  
workers, although he worried that the urban environment might  
interfere with such progress. 
 
Michael Perelman 
 
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