The Place of Feudalism in the Transition to Capitalism

1985 ◽  
pp. 147-168
Author(s):  
R. J. Holton
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Capitalism

Damascus Merchants and Trade in the Transition to Capitalism

1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Capitalism

Transitions to Capitalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Leach
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Internal Relation ◽  
Transition To Capitalism ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Related Process

This paper assesses the work of Robert Brenner alongside the insights developed within social-reproduction feminism to reassess discussions on the origins of capitalism. The focus on the internal relation between social production and social reproduction allows social-reproduction feminism to theorise the construction of gendered capitalist social relations that previous accounts of the transition to capitalism have thus far been unable to provide. It argues that a revised political Marxism has the potential to set up a non-teleological and historically specific account of the origins of capitalism. This paper seeks to redress the theoretical shortcomings of political Marxism that allow it to fail to account for the differentiated yet internally related process involved in the constitution and reconstitution of gendered capitalist social relations. This critique contributes to a social-reproduction feminism project of exploring processes of social production and social reproduction in their historical development and contemporary particularities.

Grabbing land legally: A Marxist analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umut Özsu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
International Law ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Land Grabbing ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Marxist Analysis ◽  
Marxist Approach ◽  
Transition To Capitalism ◽  
The Right

AbstractThis article lays the groundwork for a Marxist theory of the international law of land-grabbing. It argues that any comprehensive politico-economic analysis of land-grabbing must also be a politico-economic analysis of the law of land-grabbing. It argues further that Marx’s account of ‘primitive accumulation’ in Capital – an account it presents as an historical explanation of the transition to capitalism as well as a general theory of ‘extra-economic’ force deployed through state power, including, crucially, the power of law – is helpful for developing an analytical framework for understanding the legal facets of land-grabbing. Political economists, rural sociologists, and social and political theorists have argued for and against the applicability of Marx’s theory of ‘primitive accumulation’ to the contemporary wave of global land grabbing. Intriguingly, though, no international lawyers have grappled with the question of whether a specifically Marxist approach to the phenomenon can or should be developed. This article does so, contending that contemporary land-grabbing is unintelligible absent a theory of capitalism, and that the processes whereby capitalism transforms land and labour are unintelligible absent a theory of the periodic waves of legally mediated ‘primitive accumulation’ that propel it forward. The article pays particular attention to the work produced by Olivier De Schutter during his tenure as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.

Industry in the Transition to Capitalism

1983 ◽  
pp. 158-219
Author(s):  
Michael Dunford ◽  
Diane Perrons
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Capitalism
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