Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 100)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 100)

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expatriated to the metropolitan centre and not directly
invested in the colony. (36) Now, it is worth mentioning
that, although the economy of India may be internally
disarticulated, the most important economic sectors are
externally connected to the imperialist centres. Thus,
internal disarticulation is itself a form of external
articulation. (37) Alavi's position bears comparison with
Amin's notion of peripheral capitalism. (38)
However, the main problem with this conceptualisation is that
its explanatory scope remains globally structuralist and far
too general. It is only useful in explaining relations
between imperialism and colonialism and does not lend itself
very readily to an analysis of the internal dynamics of the
Indian economy. This point is highlighted by Banaji who
argues that the notion of colonial mode of production cannot
explain the prevalence and characteristic form of petty-
commodity producers in Indian agriculture or even their
incorporation into the “world capitalist system". (39)
Banaji'S own response to this problem is to argue that’ the
small-scale petty commodity producers of Indian agriculture
are effectively incorporated into the world capitalist
economy through their labour being "formally subsumed" by
small-scale money-lending capitalism. (40) For Banaji. like
Alavi, this subsumption is a form of capitalism; an
"intermediate" form of capitalism.
Second, we have the Althusserian "reading" of Marx's Capital
which culminated in the debate about the conditions of
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