The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation

By Michael Perelman. 2000

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Carbon forestry and agrarian change: access and land control in a Mexican rainforest (2011, background): “This case therefore illustrates the ongoing nature of the agrarian question and the continued relevance of primitive accumulation (De Angelis 2001 , Glassman 2006 , Perelman 2000 ).”
The land question: special economic zones and the political economy of dispossession in India (2012, background): “…reconceptualization – other scholars before and since Harvey have advanced conceptions of ‘ongoing primitive accumulation’ that mark a similar break (Perelman 2000, De Angelis 2001, Hart 2002, Luxemburg 2003, RETORT 2005, De Angelis 2007, Sanyal 2007) – but it does help in giving the concept a…”
Frontiers of Commodification: State Lands and Their Formalization (2015, background): “The collisions between capitalist expansion and protection logics, and between the interests of different state actors and social forces, also create tensions that play out in land policies (Polyani 1944; Perelman 2011).”
Privatizing conditions of production: trade agreements as neoliberal environmental governance (2004, background): “The second turns on the question of whether primitive accumulation is, as the name suggests, a purely historical process and category, one seminal to but obviated by the development of capitalism, or whether it can understood as an ongoing process––ongoing both in space as capitalism incorporates ne”
Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land (2013, background): “Drawing on Marx’s discussion of primitive accumulation (Marx, 1990: 873–96; also see Perelman, 2000), Harvey argues that capitalist expansion in the post-Keynesian period (1970s to the present) has been mediated through an equally violent and bloody process of alienation from the means of…”
Marx and primitive accumulation: The continuous character of capital's "enclosures" (2001, background): “Excessive emphasis on primitive accumulation would have distracted the reader from the “silent compulsion of the market” (Perelman 2000: 31).”
Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy (2014, background): “…and historians have critiqued the power of expert models and of the material, social, and cognitive devices they deploy to produce particular realities that ordinary people have to deal with (Callon 1998; Carrier and Miller 1998; Elyachar 2005, 2012; Miller 1997; Mitchell 2002; Perelman 2000).”
Accumulation by Dispossession and Socio‐Environmental Conflicts Caused by the Expansion of Agribusiness in Argentina (2015, background): “Thus, the enclosure of the commons is the main technique of primitive accumulation carried out by capitalist forces (Perelman 2000).”
Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones (2013, background): “Spurred by a proliferation of movements and insurgencies against various forms of dispossession and enclosure, scholars have had occasion to consider whether the ‘primitive accumulation’ that Marx identified with the dawn of the capitalist era may not in fact be one of its ongoing and constitutive f”
Primitive accumulation, accumulation by dispossession, accumulation by ‘extra-economic’ means (2006, background): “…of workers resisting their full proletarianization – primarily because of the loss of independence entailed and the undesirability of working conditions in the waged jobs available to workers removed from agriculture, petty commodity production, and the like (Scott, 1976; 1985; Perelman, 2000).”
Moral economy: Rethinking a radical concept (2016, background): “In fact, they actively worked for this, advocating government policies that deprived the peasantry of the means and institutions for self-provision (Perelman, 2000).”
Commodity Chains and the Uneven Geographies of Global Capitalism: A Disarticulations Perspective (2011, background): “…classical view, the era of capitalist accumulation based on the appropriation of surplus value from exploited labor is premised on a prior phase of separating labor from its means of production through extra-economic means such as violence, fraud, and theft (see de Angelis, 2001; Perelman, 2000).”
Plantation rubber, land grabbing and social-property transformation in southern Laos (2012, background): “…have noted, however, his is also a logical argument that explains how and why capitalist property and social relations of production are established and intensified via dispossessing processes (De Angelis 1999, 2004, Perelman 2000, Read 2002, Harvey 2003, 2006, McCarthy 2004, Glassman 2006).”
Special Economic Zones and Accumulation by Dispossession in India (2011, background): “While Luxemburg (2003) saw it as an essentially serial process as capitalism spread across the globe and developed in different countries, Perelman (2000) and De Angelis (2001), among others, had already advanced theories of primitive accumulation as a continuous process intrinsic to fully…”