Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 211)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 211)

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CHAPTER 4: MERCHANT/USURER CAPITAL AND THE SUBORDINATION OF
NON-CAPITALIST FORMS OF PRODUCTION
In the preceding chapter [I attempted to define the
specificity of the relations of production in the different
forms of non-capitalist modes of production which were found
in the region under analysis in this study. I showed how only
in sharecropping and cash tenancy relations of production did
there actually occur relations of economic exploitation
engendered in these modes of production themselves. In this
chapter I want to show how all forms of peasant agrarian
enterprises have become formally subordinate to
merchant/usurer capital and the mechanisms which
merchant/usurers utilise to appropriate part of the surplus
product produced by the different forms of peasant commodity
producers residing in the region. I will then attempt to draw
out some basic ideas on agrarian development strategies which
can help to off-set the worst aspects of peasant poverty
instigated by their formal subsumption to merchant/usurer
capital.
I. THE CIRCULATION OF COMMODITIES, COMMERCIAL AND USURER
CAPITAL
In order to understand the phenomenon of peasant subsumption
to merchant/usurer capital I feel it is necessary to move
from an abstract account of the process of social
reproduction through a series of specifications which lead us
to a concrete understanding of the real relationships which
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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production

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Alex Pollock

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