The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive AccumulationDuke University Press, 2000/05/03 - 424 ページ The originators of classical political economy—Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others—created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism. But, in the great texts of that discourse, these writers downplayed a crucial requirement for capitalism’s creation: For it to succeed, peasants would have to abandon their self-sufficient lifestyle and go to work for wages in a factory. Why would they willingly do this? Clearly, they did not go willingly. As Michael Perelman shows, they were forced into the factories with the active support of the same economists who were making theoretical claims for capitalism as a self-correcting mechanism that thrived without needing government intervention. Directly contradicting the laissez-faire principles they claimed to espouse, these men advocated government policies that deprived the peasantry of the means for self-provision in order to coerce these small farmers into wage labor. To show how Adam Smith and the other classical economists appear to have deliberately obscured the nature of the control of labor and how policies attacking the economic independence of the rural peasantry were essentially conceived to foster primitive accumulation, Perelman examines diaries, letters, and the more practical writings of the classical economists. He argues that these private and practical writings reveal the real intentions and goals of classical political economy—to separate a rural peasantry from their access to land. This rereading of the history of classical political economy sheds important light on the rise of capitalism to its present state of world dominance. Historians of political economy and Marxist thought will find that this book broadens their understanding of how capitalism took hold in the industrial age. |
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... bourgeoisie used the state to create a legal structure to abrogate these traditional rights (Tigar and Levy 1977). Simple dispossession from the commons was a necessary, but not always sufficient condition to harness rural people to the ...
... bourgeoisie used the state to create a legal structure to abrogate these traditional rights (Tigar and Levy 1977). Simple dispossession from the commons was a necessary, but not always sufficient condition to harness rural people to the ...
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... bourgeoisie became the politically dominant class in the course of the 18th Century was masked by the establishment of an explicitly coded and formally egalitarian juridical framework, made possible by the organization of a ...
... bourgeoisie became the politically dominant class in the course of the 18th Century was masked by the establishment of an explicitly coded and formally egalitarian juridical framework, made possible by the organization of a ...
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... bourgeoisie sought every possible opportunity to engage people in productive work that would turn a profit for employers. Accordingly, classical political economists advocated actions to shape society around the logic of accumulation in ...
... bourgeoisie sought every possible opportunity to engage people in productive work that would turn a profit for employers. Accordingly, classical political economists advocated actions to shape society around the logic of accumulation in ...
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... bourgeoisie needs the power of the state, and uses it to ''regulate'' wages, i.e., to force them into the limits suitable to make a profit, to lengthen the working day, and to keep the worker himself at his normal level of dependence ...
... bourgeoisie needs the power of the state, and uses it to ''regulate'' wages, i.e., to force them into the limits suitable to make a profit, to lengthen the working day, and to keep the worker himself at his normal level of dependence ...
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3 Primitive Accumulation and the Game Laws | 38 |
4 The Social Division of Labor and Household Production | 59 |
5 Elaborating the Model of Primitive Accumulation | 92 |
6 The Dawn of Political Economy | 124 |
7 Sir James Steuarts Secret History of Primitive Accumulation | 139 |
10 Adam Smith and the Ideological Role of the Colonies | 229 |
11 Benjamin Franklin and the Smithian Ideology of Slavery and Wage Labor | 254 |
Classical Political Economy versus the Working Class | 280 |
13 The Counterattack | 321 |
14 Notes on Development | 352 |
Conclusion | 369 |
References | 371 |
Index | 407 |
8 Adam Smiths Charming Obfuscation of Class | 171 |
9 The Revisionist History of Professor Adam Smith | 196 |
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