Jurriaan wrote:
...When I read Marx's Capital
in German, I never found any place in which he uses the term "primitive
accumulation", rather, he uses the term "ursprungliche Akkumulation", that
is to say, the initial or original accumulation.
Do you have any source or evidence, which proves that Marx uses the specific
words "primitive accumulation" himself, rather than original accumulation ?
In English, "primitive" and "original", in
the strictest sense of
both words, are synonymous. In Cassel's
German-English
dictionary, the preferred equivalent of
"ursprunglich"
is "primitive", followed by "primordial."
"original" comes fifth.
Shane
