Coercive Capitalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22125469
AutoresCohn (0000-0002-4490-5034, autor de correspondencia), Samuel Cohn
Año2021
Volumen7
Número2
Páginas117-126
Fecha de publicación2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Development (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2374-538X • E-ISSN: 2374-538X
EditorialUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/sod.2021.7.2.117
OpenAlexW3174408830
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas13

Coercive capitalism is development based on the use of force to dispossess either land or labor. Early macrosociologists, both functionalist and conflict-oriented, believed that feudal systems were based on the use of force but that capitalism is based on coercion-free free markets. Wallerstein argued that coercive capitalism exists in the periphery of world systems. We argue that coercion is endemic to all capitalism. Much of the land on which capitalism is based, including all of the Western Hemisphere, was seized from aboriginal populations. Land seizure was common in historic Europe. Forced labor existed until very recently in both bound apprenticeships and prison work crews. Coercion is used extensively in land acquisition for contemporary capitalism. It can take the form of legal sanctions exerted against the defenseless, or the use of paramilitaries and gangsters to exert pressure on the landholding poor

Capitalism · Feudalism · Political economy · Political science · Prison · Sanctions · Sociology · Corruption and Economic Development · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Law · Political Economy and Marxism