Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 250)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 250)

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proceed on the path of capitalisation of the means of
production along capitalist lines, for this would involve a
substantial investment in mechanical equipment, plant
machinery and storage facilities over a longer period of
time. Capitalist farmers would have to be prepared to present
a budget for capitalisation and depreciation which would have
to cover expenditures over a period of anything from 10-30
years. Because of the ever present danger of land
expropriation and crop and market control by the military
authorities, such a long-term investment plan becomes’ an
unmerited financial risk. The appeal of sharetenancy | over
agrarian capitalism is that it offers an extremely lucrative
solution to the drive for capital accumulation in the money
form for merchant/usurer capital under the constraints of
colonial occupation.
VI. SOME NOTES ON DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN THE SPHERE OF
MARKETING AND CREDIT
The peasants really need co-operatives, and
especially consumers’, marketing and credit co-
operatives. When they buy goods, the merchants
exploit them: when they sell their farm produce,
the merchants cheat them: when they borrow money or
rice, they are fleeced by usurers; and they are
eager to find a solution to these problems...Given
proper guidance, the co-operative movement can
spread everywhere along with the growth of peasant
associations. (Mao Tse-Tung) (20)
I start this section with a quote from Mao, written to
celebrate the "Fourteen Great Achievements of the Peasant
Movement in Hunan” (although it was written about a very
different context from that of the peasantry in the north
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Alex Pollock

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