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Jeremias Zevi: England's "primitive accumulation" was the original
accumulation of capital (not the original accumulation of property,
given that Marx himself noted that property is always a political
relationship, and property long pre-existed capitalism), but that in
order to develop control over surplus value, capital needed to rule
labour-power, which itself is a process.
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I can't get over how Brennerites carefully sidestep what Marx wrote. In
the case of primitive accumulation, Marx wrote in chapter 31 of V. 1 of
Capital, “The Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist”:
"The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation,
enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the
beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of
Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins,
signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. These
idyllic proceedings are the chief momenta of primitive accumulation."
"THESE IDYLLIC PROCEEDINGS ARE THE CHIEF MOMENTA OF PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION."
Get it? Probably not...
From "Robert Brenner and Primitive Accumulation":
https://louisproyect.org/2007/06/01/robert-brenner-and-primitive-accumulation/
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