Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 116)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 116)

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There are a number of problems with this approach. First, it
is never explained, either ostensively or theoretically, how
every or even one mode of production determines modes of
circulation, distribution and consumption. Second, while I
accept that every mode of production will entail an
articulation of relations of circulation, distribution and
consumption, I do not accept that these relations are linked
in a directly causal or even a globally structuralist manner.
The manner of their formation is normally linked but at the
same time generated by a different source from the generation
of the mode of production. It is therefore methodologically
inappropriate to attempt theoretically to subsume’ these
relations in the concept of mode of production itself. It is
methodologically more fruitful to argue that each of these
elements require substantive theorisation within the
historical context of their formation and periodisation under
different social formations.
A much more interesting answer to the problem, although it
suffers from the same problem, is that put forward by
Bettelheim in his critique of A. Emmanuel. (84) Bettelheim
attempts to link the operation of market exchange back to
production relations by arguing that in the capitalist mode
of production the Marxist law of value determines the prices
of production and the rate of capital accumulation. (85) He
further argues that, in capitalist social formations, which
are composed of capitalist and non-capitalist modes of '
production, the relations between different social formations
and the tendencies within them are largely determined by the
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