Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 138)
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CHAPTER 3: MODES OF PRODUCTION, AGRARIAN SOCIAL CLASSES AND
LANDHOLDING
In this chapter I will consider the different types of modes
of production and the forms of economic class relations of
production embedded in these modes of production. Here I will
utilise the realist method of analysis to bring out social
relations as they are structurally constructed in the
different modes of production. These modes of production
allow us to identify the forms of peasant production units
found in the agrarian sector of the north Jordan Valley. In
the first instance I will consider these social relations
from the way they are actually entailed in the process of
production proper, in terms of two elements which - as [I have
already argued in chapter two - allow us to identify modes of
production. These are, first, the ownership and control of
the means of production, and, second, the form of
appropriation of the economic surplus produced in the
production process. These relations of production determine
actors location in economic class relationships and are
conventionally defined in terms of the ownership and control
of the means of production and the mode of appropriation of
surplus labour or surplus product -— also referred to as
economic exploitation. (1) Thus economic classes are normally
defined in terms of economic exploitation in the sphere of
production. As social categories classes act in a variety of
ideological and political ways which are overdetermined by a
multiplicity of concrete factors, but their actual economic
location in different systems of production will delimit and
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- Alex Pollock
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