Reading the mass violence in Indonesia 1965–1966 as a form of primitive accumulation

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ID12671406
AuthorsColm Mcnaughton (Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume16
Issue2
Pages292-305
Publication date2015-04-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInter-Asia Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9373 • E-ISSN: 1469-8447
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649373.2015.1037086
OpenAlexW1573574122
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

A human rights perspective is compromised in its ability to understand and respond to the mass violence that took place in Indonesia, largely against members and supporters of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) from 1965–1966. In “Indonesia's Original Sin: Mass Killings and Capitalist Expansion, 1965–66,” Hilmar Farid makes the point that a human rights standpoint is limited when capital or its various actors, are involved in propagating and/or perpetrating mass violence. In starting to fashion an alternative reading, Farid proposes Marx's notion of primitive accumulation. While Farid's position is suggestive, I contend that his analysis is marred by a number of theoretical weaknesses, which I attempt to sublate in this article. As such, I will offer an alternative reading of primitive accumulation perceived through a multi-dimensional local/global dialectic

Art · Communism · Dialectic · Epistemology · Human rights · Indonesian · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Philosophy

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