GEOG 1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Unequal Exchange, Capital Accumulation, Proletarianization

• School: York University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1410
• Professor: Patricia Wood

Document Summary

All these processes - capital accumulation outside of agriculture and in imperialist countries. Nominal ownership: only small profit, enough to keep afloat. Small scale farming under commodity production cannot save mankind from poverty and oppression". Many small scale farmers live in near-animal conditions . Cannot lead a movement for basic changes in society beyond private property and commodity production. They are differentiated, not one uniform mass of people. When someone says peasant, you must ask which kind of peasant. Global capitalism summary (very general, based on russian and german farms) Introduction of progressive division of labour (cash crops, etc. ) and machinery. When peasants become a part of capitalism, division of labour happens, some. In a country, some areas specialize in different crops do cash crops, soy, wheat, cotton, rice. Reproduction of a small peasantry in capitalism. Not due to technical superiority of small production.