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.

A Critical Analysis of Capitalism, Capital Accumulation and Crisis Theory in David Harvey

2020 ◽  
pp. 097674792095300
Author(s):  
Tanaya Majumder
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycles ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
Crisis Theory ◽  
Surplus Labour ◽  
The One ◽  
Rate Of Profit ◽  
Marxist Tradition

This article is a critical review of David Harvey’s essentialist theorisation of a capitalist economy and its crisis from a class focused Marxist perspective. The first part examines Harvey’s immense contribution to the understanding of space and spatiality of capitalism within the Marxist tradition. Capital accumulation in his theorisation serves as the impresario of space and spatiality and the harbinger of capitalist crisis in general. Expanding on a class focused approach, the second part provides a critique of Harvey’s methodology and crisis theory in which the law of capital accumulation reigns supreme. Specifically, using an anti-essentialist methodology of overdetermination with class process of surplus labour as the theoretical entry point, as developed by Resnick and Wolff, I argue that no correspondence of the rate of capital accumulation with those of rate of profit and rate of class distribution can be drawn. This unpredictability renders capitalism inherently unstable, prone to business cycles whose cause cannot be reduced to any chosen causal factor such as the one reducible to capital accumulation.

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.

Pirates of Silicon Valley: State of exception and dispossession in Web 2.0

First Monday ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Jakobsson ◽  
Fredrik Stiernstedt
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Free Labor ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
The Law ◽  
Cultural Commons ◽  
Informational Economy

This paper investigates a paradox in the reception of Web 2.0. While some of its services are seen as creators of a new informational economy and are hence publicly legitimized, other features are increasingly under surveillance and policed, although in reality the differences between these services is far from obvious. Our thesis is that we are currently experiencing a temporary postponement of the law, in the context of Web 2.0. Agamben’s work on the state of exception is here used to theorize the informational economy as an ongoing dispossession, under the guise of ‘networked production’. This dispossession is seen as a parallel to the concept of ‘primitive accumulation’, as a means of moving things from the exterior to the interior of the capitalist economy. This theory lets us problematize the concept of free labor, the metaphor of the enclosure, and puts into question the dichotomy between copyright and cultural commons.

Dispossession as Destination

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Wynyard
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

The systematic dispossession of Māori land in the 19th and 20th centuries formed the basis of Aotearoa New Zealand’s capitalist economy and contributed to persistent patterns of inequality between Pākehā and Māori. Māori were, and largely remain, excluded from the land-based economy of Aotearoa New Zealand. This chapter draws on an emergent body of Indigenous critical theory that seeks to reformulate or “indiginize” Marx’s theory of primitive accumulation to better account for Indigenous experiences of colonization. It describes the settler-colonial process in Aotearoa New Zealand, including the myriad attempts of settlers and the Crown to eliminate Māori and separate us from our ancestral lands. Ultimately, however, this chapter argues that the settler colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand is, in part at least, a failed project. Māori have not been eliminated and the umbilical connection to the lands of our ancestors has not been severed.

Regional Development in Rural Malaysia and the ‘Tribal Question’

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zawawi Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
Economic Anthropology ◽  
Orang Asli ◽  
Peasant Studies ◽  
Agrarian Question

In the field of research and studies pertaining to Malaysian rural society, there has traditionally been a dominant emphasis, especially by local scholars, on the analysis of the indigenous Malay peasantry rather than on the equally indigenous ‘tribal’ minorities, i.e. the Orang Asli. This has also meant that the new theoretical directions and perspectives developed in the various interrelated fields (such as ‘the New Economic Anthropology’, ‘Peasant Studies’, and Political Economy, including the Neo-Marxist School of Development and Underdevelopment) have been applied with rigour only to those issues arising from ‘the peasant question’ in Malaysia. To date, no scholars have as yet seriously attempted to address ‘the agrarian question’ in the context of Malaysian society by also incorporating in their theoretical analysis the position of its ‘tribal’ minorities.

Microdiffraction Patterns of Small Metallic Particles II; Theoretical Analysis

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 668-669
Author(s):  
A. Gómez ◽  
P. Schabes-Retchkiman ◽  
M. José-Yacamán ◽  
T. Ocaña
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Size Range ◽  
Dynamical Theory ◽  
Metallic Particles ◽  
Splitting Effect

The splitting effect that is observed in microdiffraction pat-terns of small metallic particles in the size range 50-500 Å can be understood using the dynamical theory of electron diffraction for the case of a crystal containing a finite wedge. For the experimental data we refer to part I of this work in these proceedings.

Theoretical analysis of a monopole antenna with conducting flat disk above the earth

2001 ◽  
Vol 84 (7) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Aki Yuasa ◽  
Daisuke Itatsu ◽  
Naoki Inagaki ◽  
Nobuyoshi Kikuma
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Monopole Antenna ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Flat Disk
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