When primitive accumulation inhabits advanced systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Saskia Sassen
Keyword(s):  
Primitive Accumulation

The Land Question in India

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony P. D’Costa ◽  
Achin Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Private Capital ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Accumulation By Dispossession ◽  
Land Question

Since the mid-2000s, proliferating “land wars” have exposed a contradiction between the land requirements of neoliberal capitalism and the political weight of farmers in India’s democracy. Whether, how, and for whom this contradiction is resolved constitutes India’s “new” land question. But this chapter argues that Marx’s “primitive accumulation” or Harvey’s “accumulation by dispossession” are inadequate to understand this conjuncture; and it advances the concept of “regimes of dispossession” as an alternative. It argues that from the early 1990s, India shifted from a regime that dispossessed land for state-led projects of material expansion to one that dispossesses land for private and decreasingly productive investments. This new regime, in which states have become mere land brokers for private capital, is arguably less “developmental” than its Nehruvian predecessor. The upshot is that India’s “land wars” are unlikely to dissipate any time soon; and the “land question” may be the largest contradiction for Indian capitalism for the foreseeable future.

The Would-Be Migrant: Post-Socialist Primitive Accumulation, Potential Transnational Mobility, and the Displacement of the Present in Northeast China

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Biao
Keyword(s):  
Northeast China ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Accumulation Potential ◽  
Do So

AbstractThis article argues that ‘would-be migrants’ – people who prepare for migrating overseas to the extent that their present lives are significantly changed – should become a central figure in migration studies. There are many more would-be migrants than actual migrants, and they also have deeper impacts on migration processes and local societies. Instead of treating the would-be migrant as a derivative of the category of ‘migrant’, this article establishes it as the primary figure, and argues that migration is a contingent outcome of being a ‘would-be’. In order to do so this article delves into the living conditions of would-be migrants in northeast China, with a focus on two aspects that concern them the most: the exorbitant intermediary fees and the high risks involved. The would-be migrants' experiences suggest that the prevalent pattern of unskilled outmigration since the 1990s should be understood as a result of developments inside of China, particularly a condition that I call the ‘displacement of the present’. The figure of would-be migrant is not only methodologically revealing for migration studies, but also urges us to rethink how we may engage with rapid social changes.

scholarly journals PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION, GROWTH AND THE GENESIS OF SOCIAL CLASSES

2009 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 540-557
Author(s):  
Jean-François Jacques ◽  
Antoine Rebeyrol
Keyword(s):  
Social Classes ◽  
Primitive Accumulation

Idle No More

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Jeffery R. Webber
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
The North

This article introduces the symposium on Glen Coulthard’sRed Skin, White Masks. It begins by situating the book’s publication in the wake of the extensive mobilisations of the Idle No More movement in Canada in 2012–13. Coulthard’s strategic hypotheses on the horizons of Indigenous liberation in the book are intimately linked to his participation in these recent struggles. The article then locatesRed Skin, White Maskswithin a wider renaissance of Indigenous Studies in the North American context in recent years, highlighting Coulthard’s unique and sympathetic extension of Marx’s critique of capitalism, particularly through his use of the concept of ‘primitive accumulation’. Next, the article outlines the long arc of the argument inRed Skin, White Masksand the organisation of the book’s constituent parts, providing a backdrop to the critical engagements that follow from Peter Kulchyski, Geoff Mann, George Ciccariello-Maher, and Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz. The article closes with reflections on Coulthard’s engagement with Fanon, who, besides Marx, is the most important polestar inRed Skin, White Masks.

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.

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