Attempted Feudalism, Primitive Accumulation and Eradication of Native Populations

Terence J. Byres
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Chapter 5 in Capitalism from Above and Capitalism from Below, 1996, pp 161-216 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Lenin, we recall, pointed to the diversity to be found in the United States. He captured that most vividly and effectively. But, for Lenin, it was a diversity that, while noteworthy, did not need to be identified analytically. It was a diversity structured by particular dominant tendencies: those of a capitalist agriculture, which had emerged from petty commodity production; with petty commodity producers as the essential agents of change; speedy expansion of the productive forces and especially of mechanisation; a rapidly expanding home market; and, above all, the growing preponderance of wage labour. These tendencies, he argued, regulated and controlled the diversity noted. The diversity to which he draws attention he does not consider substantive.

Keywords: Fundamental Constitution; Seventeenth Century; European Settler; English Coloni; Indian Tribe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25117-9_5

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