Devine, James wrote: > yes, that's a good book. I don't remember exactly how he described
"Junker capitalism," but that capitalism is of a limited source because of the feudal or semi-feudal relationship between the bosses and the direct producers.
Well, here's how Lenin viewed a system that combined agricultural commodity production and non-market coercion:
>>Lastly, it must be observed that sometimes the labour-service system passes into the capitalist system and merges with it to such an extent that it becomes almost impossible to distinguish one from the other. For example, a peasant rents a plot of land, undertaking in return to perform a definite number of days’ work (a practice which, as we know, is most widespread; see examples in the next section). How are we to draw a line of demarcation between such a “peasant” and the West-European or Ostsee “farm labourer” who receives a plot of land on undertaking to work a definite number of days? Life creates forms that unite in themselves with remarkable gradualness systems of economy whose basic features constitute opposites. It becomes impossible to say where “labour-service” ends and where “capitalism” begins.<<
full: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1899/devel/ch03/02.htm
In fact, Lenin's arguments in "The Development of Capitalism in Russia" are similar to ones that I had been making on PEN-L long before I stumbled across this invaluable early work of his.
I guess I was right about the idea that Blautian thinkers conflate markets with capitalism. To see the Congo as "capitalist" is focusing only on output and financial markets, forgetting about relations in production.
I would say that you think conflate capitalism with the industrial revolution, and in Great Britain in particular. Marx wrote Zasulich and Danielson in the 1880s that this was not the way to read Capital.
the "Congolese" suffered from "extra-economic coercion" not only in the process of "primitive accumulation" but while they worked.
I really don't understand what you are saying here.
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