Petty Commodity Production, Capital Accumulation, and Peasant Differentiation: Lenin vs. Chayanov in Rural Mexico

Scott Cook and Leigh Binford
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Leigh Binford: Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268.

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1986, vol. 18, issue 4, 1-31

Abstract: The movement of peasant-artisan household enterprises from petty commodity production to petty capitalism may be significantly affected by family demographic and life-cycle factors through their impact upon productive capacity, capital accumulation and material wealth. This finding supports Lenin's thesis that family cooperation is the foundation of capitalist cooperation, and negates Chayanov's labor-consumer balance theory of the peasant family economy with its emphasis on simple reproduction.

Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1177/048661348601800401

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