Petty Commodity Production, Capital Accumulation, and Peasant Differentiation: Lenin vs. Chayanov in Rural Mexico
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Review of Radical Political Economics
- Vol. 18 (4) , 1-31
- https://doi.org/10.1177/048661348601800401
Abstract
The movement of peasant-artisan household enterprises from petty commodity production to petty capitalism may be significantly affected by family demographic and life-cycle factors through their impact upon productive capacity, capital accumulation and material wealth. This finding supports Lenin's thesis that family cooperation is the foundation of capitalist cooperation, and negates Chayanov's labor-consumer balance theory of the peasant family economy with its emphasis on simple reproduction.Keywords
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