Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 112)
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penetration (commercial capital) and the growth in migrant-
commuting labour to the Israeli economy or its satellites in
the West Bank. (70) There has been no structural development
of productive activity in the Palestinian Arab sector of the
West Bank economy, which 1s significantly marked by non-
autarky and dependency. (71)
Modes of Production
Contemporary debates on the theory of modes of production
have their theoretical lineage in Volume 1 of Capital, where
Marx analysed in detail only one particular mode of
production; the capitalist mode of production. (72) Marx
himself, and the classical Marxists who followed him, never
thought it necessary to construct a general concept of non-
capitalist modes of production. (73) In the "Formen" section
of the Grundrisse, Marx did discuss pre-capitalist modes of
production and outlined some general differences between the
capitalist mode of production and pre-capitalist modes of
production, but at no time did he present a rigorous concept
of modes of production in general. This has raised a number
of problems for latter day analysts.
A number of Marxists, particularly economists, have a
tendency to conceive the capitalist mode of production as
including both the production and circulation of commodities
(labour, money and products). (75) I think that a
fundamental error is instantiated in this position. If this
position were correct we would expect divergent modes of
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- Alex Pollock
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