The agrarian question in the neoliberal era: primitive accumulation and the peasantry

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-311
Author(s):  
Michael Levien
Keyword(s):  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Agrarian Question

scholarly journals Questão agrária: capitalismo e proletarização rural no Brasil | Agrarian question: capitalism and rural proletarization in Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (41) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Amilton de Almeida ◽  
Cristina Simões Bezerra
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
Agrarian Question ◽  
Ellen Wood ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Marxist Tradition

O objeto desse estudo trata-se da questão agrária no Brasil. O objetivo principal consistiu em analisar as determinações agrárias que nos envolvem no quadro das transformações universais do capital, precisamente aquelas que dizem respeito ao processo de proletarização rural. Para isso, partimos da análise de Marx sobre a acumulação primitiva, com contribuições de Ellen Wood e de outras referências da tradição marxista, dentre as quais intérpretes da realidade nacional, tomadas como fios condutores à apreensão do papel que cumpre à questão agrária na estruturação do capitalismo brasileiro. A metodologia baseou-se, principalmente, em pesquisa bibliográfica e análise teórica, cujos resultados nos levam a considerar a economia capitalista agrária brasileira como uma das principais responsáveis pela difusão das desigualdades e dos conflitos sociais de nossos tempos.Palavras-Chave: acumulação primitiva; questão agrária; proletariado rural; capitalismo. Abstract – The agrarian question in Brazil is the object of this study, whose main objective was to analyze the agrarian determinations that involve us in the framework of the universal transformations of capital, specifically those that concern the process of rural proletarization. For this, we start with Marx’s analysis of primitive accumulation, with contributions by Ellen Wood of other references of the Marxist tradition, among which interpreters of the national situation, taken as guiding principles to the understading of the agrarian question in the structuring of Brazilian capitalism. The methodology was based mainly on bibliographical research and theoretical analysis, whose results led us to consider the Brazilian agrarian capitalist economy as one of the main responsible for the propagation of inequalities and social conflicts in our times.Keywords: primitive accumulation; agrarian question; rural proletariat; capitalism.

The Contemporary Significance of Primitive Accumulation∗

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohit Negi ◽  
Marc Auerbach
Keyword(s):  
Social Effects ◽  
The Political ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Agrarian Question ◽  
Accumulation By Dispossession ◽  
The Social ◽  
Agricultural Households ◽  
The Way

The emerging body of literature on accumulation by dispossession (ABD) sharpens the political edge of the critique of contemporary capitalism. While this is welcome, there are also reasons for concern about the way ABD has been taken up. This is so, because the processes at the heart of Marx's enunciations of primitive accumulation are widely considered passé or are subsumed within the broadened conception of ABD. It matters because the separation of agricultural households from land is an ongoing and central reality of our times, and the social effects have been disastrous. Achieving greater clarity around primitive accumulation and the constellation of issues associated with the agrarian question, then, is of more than passing importance. This article argues that radical geographers should return to the land to undertake an open and materialist engagement with contemporary processes of primitive accumulation.

The Agrarian Question in Contemporary Zimbabwe

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Toendepi Shonhe
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Food Crop ◽  
Contract Farming ◽  
Agrarian Question ◽  
Food Crop Production ◽  
The Government ◽  
Agrarian Transition ◽  
Depth Interviews

The reinvestment of rural agrarian surplus is driving capital accumulation in Zimbabwe's countryside, providing a scope to foster national (re-) industrialisation and job creation. Contrary to Bernstein's view, the Agrarian Question on capital remains unresolved in Southern Africa. Even though export finance, accessed through contract farming, provides an impetus for export cash crop production, and the government-mediated command agriculture supports food crop production, the reinvestment of proceeds from the sale of agricultural commodities is now driving capital accumulation. Drawing from empirical data, gathered through surveys and in-depth interviews from Hwedza district and Mvurwi farming area in Mazowe district in Zimbabwe, the findings of this study revealed the pre-eminence of the Agrarian Question, linked to an ongoing agrarian transition in Zimbabwe. This agrarian capital elaborates rural-urban interconnections and economic development, following two decades of de-industrialisation in Zimbabwe. 

Documents from the State Archive of the Orel Region as a Source for Studying Peasant Legal Sense in Early 20th Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 98-108
Author(s):  
Vadim V. Kulachkov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
The State ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Agrarian Question ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Legal Sense

The article studies documents from the State Archive of the Orel Region (GAOO) as an important source for studying the sense of justice of the Oryol gubernia peasants in early 20th century. Introduction of new archival materials allows to flesh out our knowledge and to produce a true-to-life picture of the Oryol peasants’ way of life. The peasant origins of the majority of the population necessitate a comprehensive study of peasant legal consciousness. Historical legacy is pertinent to present day, and forgetting its lessons is fraught with consequences. Evolution of modern Russian statehood hedges on its historical and legal traditions. The article studies documents in the fonds of public authorities, police, gendarmerie, courts, and prosecution offices. Introduction of new materials of public authorities, police, gendarmerie, courts, and prosecution offices into the scholarship promotes the analysis of the evolution of peasant legal sense in early 20th century. The chronological framework of the article is limited to the period from 1900 to 1917, its territorial framework is limited to the Oryol gubernia in its pre-revolutionary borders. The article studies reports, dispatches, and circular letters using the comparative method. The intensification of peasant protest was incidental to the first Russian revolution of 1905-1907 – the peasants hoped to force the government to settle the agrarian question, wherein lay the crux of their interests. As peasants of the Oryol gubernia suffered from shortage of arable land, antimonarchical sentiments gained momentum and translated a growing number of trials for contempt of the Emperor. Illegal literature spreading among the peasants, further radicalized them, and the authorities grew more and more hesitant in their assessment of peasant loyalty, which is quite intelligible in the archival documents. Thus, the use of new archival documents in addition to published materials promotes the scholarship on the peasant legal sense.

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