What I‘d like to do in this paper is raise the general issue of how we
can develop historical materialism in more powerful ways than Marxists
have tried to do since the sixties. The general issue is addressed by
raising three specific questions. First, how should Marxists periodize
capitalism? Second, is there a consistent materialist characterization
of 'Asiatic‘ regimes, since Marx‘s Asiatic mode of production clearly
doesn‘t work as one? And third, why have Marxists had so little to say
about the deployment of labour? By deployment of labour I mean not the
general ways of controlling and exploiting labour that Marx himself
would repeatedly refer to in categories such as 'slavery‘, 'serfdom‘ and
so on, but the organization and control of the labour-process in
concrete settings, as in Carlo Poni‘s fine monograph on the struggle
between landowners and sharecroppers over methods of ploughing that
increased the intensity of labour or Hans-Günther Mertens‘s discussion
of the organization of Mexican estates.
https://www.academia.edu/24199321/Reconstructing_Historical_Materialism_Some_Key_Issues?email_work_card=title
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