Did agrarian capitalism exist?
- 1 April 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Peasant Studies
- Vol. 20 (3) , 419-441
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03066159308438516
Abstract
Lack of clarity about key concepts of Marxian political economy and a penchant to apply such concepts too directly to history seriously weakens Brenner's analysis of ‘agrarian capitalism’. It is argued that even as late as 1700 English agriculture is not capitalist to any appreciable extent, when one considers that the corn‐modification of labour power is crucial to considering agriculture to be capitalist, and when one closely examines the actual degree to which labour power is commodified. Further it is argued that English agriculture only becomes substantially capitalist in the third quarter of the nineteenth century.Keywords
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