The dissolution of the Asiation mode of production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2160077 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Çağlar Keyder |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 178-196 |
| Publication date | 1976-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085147600000007 |
| OpenAlex | W2169585001 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 6 |
The article is an attempt to trace out the contradictions accompanying the integration of a pre-capitalist formation into the world economy. Historical examples are taken from the Ottoman Empire, which, it is claimed, can be characterised as a transformation of the Asiatic Mode of Production. As merchant capital begins to dissolve the existing relations of production, a struggle over the division of the surplus ensues. This struggle is discussed first in the context of an economy with a negligible escape of surplus, and secondly when the surplus transfer abroad begins to condition the contradictions within. In the first situation merchant capital in its trading and production-organizing functions, claims a larger portion of the surplus which traditionally belonged to the ruling class of the pre-capitalist formation. The result of this struggle is analysed under two different assumptions: one that the division of the surplus is achieved without the intervention of the political instance, and two that the state becomes the platform for the struggle. When the economy begins to lose some of its surplus abroad, the internal contradictions are aggravated. The eventual consequence of the loss is a balance-of-payments crisis, as a result of which the merchant class will find themselves discredited, and the political balances may shift in favour of the traditional ruling class. The conclusion states that this series of contradictions is characteristic of the history of peripheral capitalism
Capital (architecture · Capital accumulation · Capitalism · Capitalist mode of production · Class conflict · Context (archaeology · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Financial capital · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Means of production · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Production (economics · Relations of production · Ruling class · State (computer science · Surplus value · Economic Theory and Policy · Global Financial Crisis and Policies · Political Economy and Marxism · History · Law
Modes of production and Non-European pre-colonial societies
Subalternity, postcolonial critique and the Ottoman peasantry
L'Itinéraire d'un débat
The Ottoman State
The Asiatic mode of production and the formative Turkic and Iranian states in modern times
The Ottoman origins of capitalism
The Balkanization of Ottoman Rule
The feudalism debate
The Bourgeois Revolution in Peru
The Ottoman state and the question of state autonomy
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1977 - 2014 (38) |
| Highly cited | No |