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This chapter focuses on the academic debate about the transition from pre-capitalist society and economy to capitalism. This debate, known as the transition debate, has produced a variety of complex and challenging theoretical schemes for understanding how long-term economic change occurs in the society.
Oct 30, 2018 · Introduction. The purpose of this special issue is to advance heterodox reconstructions of agrarian Marxism on the occasion of Marx's 200th birth anniversary. Scholarship on the origins of agrarian capitalism and the contrasts between agrarian and industrial capitalism have been a vital part of debates over and within Marxism for more than a ...
2 days ago · This chapter traces the different ways in which scholars have analysed the condition of farmers and explained the processes leading to greater inequality—agrarian transition and capitalism, implications of race, caste and gender, the role of colonialism and violence, the state and agribusiness, and science and technology in shaping agrarian worlds.
Jun 21, 2010 · For the better part of six centuries, the relation between world capitalism and agriculture has been a remarkable one. Every great wave of capitalist development has been paved with ‘cheap’ food. Beginning in the long sixteenth century, capitalist agencies pioneered successive agricultural revolutions, yielding a series of extraordinary expansions of the food surplus.
- Jason W. Moore
- 2010
- What Was “Agrarian Capitalism”?
- The Rise of Capitalist Property
- Was Agrarian Capitalism Really Capitalist?
- The Lessons of Agrarian Capitalism
For millennia, human beings have provided for their material needs by working the land. And probably for nearly as long as they have engaged in agriculture they have been divided into classes, between those who worked the land and those who appropriated the labor of others. That division between appropriators and producers has taken many forms in d...
So by the sixteenth century English agriculture was marked by a unique combination of conditions, at least in certain regions, which would gradually set the economic direction of the whole economy. The result was an agrarian sector more productive than any other in history. Landlords and tenants alike became preoccupied with what they called “impro...
We should pause here to emphasize two major points. First, it was not merchants or manufacturers who were driving this process. The transformation of social property relations was firmly rooted in the countryside, and the transformation of English trade and industry was result more than cause of England’s transition to capitalism. Merchants could f...
What, then, does all this tell us about the nature of capitalism? First, it reminds us that capitalism is not a “natural” and inevitable consequence of human nature, or even of age-old social practices like “truck, barter, and exchange.” It is a late and localized product of very specific historical conditions. The expansionary drive of capitalism,...
The human species has lived for most of its time in simple hunter-gatherer societies. Agrarian societies developed less than 5.000 years ago and it is only in the last 200 years that a ‘modern’ industrial society has come into being. Today this industrial society is rapidly transforming into a global information society.
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Sep 4, 2024 · This work reflects on how today, the continued expansion of capitalism and its metabolism of nature is responsible for and inextricable from climate change (Fraser, 2021; Matthan, 2023); climate change contributes to the destruction of agrarian lives and landscapes; and agrarian transitions are increasingly shaped by and shape climate change and how we seek to live with it, including ...
