Notes on capital and peasantry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8045336 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry Bernstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Publication date | 1977-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056247708703339 |
| OpenAlex | W2026611169 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 158 |
| References cited | 2 |
Bernstein examines the diverse ways in which capital and the colonial state incorporated rural producers into the production and consumption of commodities as the means of securing their own subsistence. Regulations, services and the monopoly of crop producers have been used to require an often recalcitrant peasantry to organize production to meet the requirements of international capital and the local state for particular commodities, for trading profits, and for revenues and foreign exchange. The peasantry must be analysed in its relations with capital and the state, in varying concrete conditions, which means within capitalist relations of production. These are mediated not through the wage relation, but through various forms of household production by producers who are not fully expropriated, and who are engaged in a struggle with capital/state for effective possession and control of the conditions of production
Agriculture · Business · Capital (architecture · Consumption · Consumption (sociology) · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Financial capital · Geography · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Means of production · Monopoly · Possession (linguistics · Production (economics) · Relations of production · Sociology · State (computer science) · Subsistence agriculture · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Political Economy and Marxism
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| Unique citing works | 158 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,36 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2026 (48) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 153 |