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Capitalism was born at the very core of human life, in the interaction with nature on which life itself depends. The transformation of that interaction by agrarian capitalism revealed the inherently destructive impulses of a system in which the very fundamentals of existence are subjected to the requirements of profit.
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.
Jul 2, 1998 · Abstract. One of the most well established conventions of Western culture is the association of capitalism with cities. Capitalism is supposed to have been born and bred in the city. But more than that, the implication is that any city—with its characteristic practices of trade and commerce—is by its very nature potentially capitalist from ...
- Ellen Meiksins Wood
- 1998
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 ...
Abstract. Historians have documented rising farm sizes throughout the period 1450–1850. Existing studies have revealed much about the mechanisms underlying the development of agrarian capitalism. However, we currently lack any consensus as to when the critical developments occurred. This is largely due to the absence of sufficiently large and ...
Feudalism, a hierarchical agrarian system prevalent in the Middle Ages, was characterised by land ownership and loyalty to lords. Over time, this system gave way to capitalism, marked by private property, market-driven economies, and individual entrepreneurship. This transition involved significant changes in the organisation of society ...
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1 Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe; 2 Population and Class Relations in Feudal Society; 3 Agrarian Class Structure and the Development of Capitalism: France and England Compared; 4 Peasant Organization and Class Conflict in Eastern and Western Germany; 5 A Reply to Robert Brenner; 6 Against the Neo ...
