There is nothing simple about simple commodity production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2158689 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacques Chevalier (0000-0002-3478-5729, Carleton University, corresponding author), Jacques M Chevalier (0000-0001-8873-6669) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 153-186 |
| Publication date | 1983-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066158308438210 |
| OpenAlex | W2177359402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
| References cited | 47 |
This essay offers a theoretical rethinking of simple commodity production that avoids two extreme notions of capitalism: one which readily embraces all relations of production found in the pervasive world system, and another which produces a rigidly eroded model to which everything else is externally articulated. It is argued that some specific forms of SCP can be treated as variations of capitalism integral to its polymorphous logic, and therefore as subjected, under determinate conditions, to a flexibly defined process of labour's subordination (formal and real) to capital. Self-employed labour is also re-examined in the light of (a) the basic exigencies of capital accumulation, (b) the contradictions inherent to capitalism, especially those pertaining to the confrontation between intraverted and extroverted economies, and (c) the active struggle of all working classes against their total dispossession from commodified wealth
Capital (architecture · Capitalism · Commodification · Commodity · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Financial capital · Market economy · Means of production · Microeconomics · Neoclassical economics · Nothing · Political science · Production (economics · Relations of production · Simple (philosophy · Subordination (linguistics · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Economic Theory and Policy · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
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| Unique citing works | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,21 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2025 (42) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 49 |