Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 117)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 117)

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law of capital accumulation and the law of value. (86) This
general tendency is also operative ina hierarchical order on
the international level, since:
Within the capitalist world market, the law of
value ensures: expanded reproduction of the
material and social conditions of wor ldwide
production, a definite pattern of domination and
subordination of the different social formations,
reproducing the system of places corresponding to
these relations of domination and subordiantion.
(87)
In other words, the location of each national formation in
the global structure of the world economy has effects on the
internal modes of production in the national social
formation. These effects are largely determined by the law of
value and the rate of accumulation. However, these effects
are reduced economic ones and at this level of analysis
concerned only with market prices of products. At the global
level of analysis, where Bettelheim has set the issue, there
is not very much which is contentious about the substantive
content, the issue about debate over the relevance of value
theory in determining the price of commodities
notwithstanding. (88) However, it would be less’ than
appropriate to leave the issue here. This approach says
nothing, for example, about the forms of exploitation and
differential rates of exploitation of "workers" between
capitalist and non-capitalist modes of production nor. the
forms of "legal", "racial", "familial" or "gender" relations
which are just as often mechanisms of subjugation or
reproduction of "workers" in capitalist and non-capitalist
modes of production. (89) Moreover, these elements are
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