What is it about?
Debates over agrarian change and its significance for capitalist development persist with little resolution into the 21st century. This paper shows how the clearest answers are available in a careful reading of V3 of Marx's CAPITAL. V1 of Marx's opus led to the exciting but misguided view of a capitalist teleology and hackneyed "logical historical method". This paper debunks that position which was originally formulated by Karl Kautsky prior to the availability of V3. Widespread dissemination of Kautsky's ideas in the heady days of late 19th early 20th century revolutionary aspirations of socialists have severely retarded development of Marx's theories and stunt analysis of capitalism and peasant economies at the current conjuncture.
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Why is it important?
It is important to deal with this question as hundreds of millions of peasant and semi-proletarian human beings exist in a development twilight zone fostered in part by globalization and neoliberalism.
Perspectives
I wrote this article with a profound sense of dismay over conditions faced by so much of humanity and the 19th century blinders progressive scholars, particularly Marxists, continue to wear in treating this abiding question...
Dr Richard Westra
University of Macau
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This page is a summary of: An Unoist perspective on the agrarian question in capitalist development, The Japanese Political Economy, April 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/2329194x.2019.1599959.
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