SCA-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eurocentrism, Ernest Renan, Primitive Accumulation Of Capital
22 Mar 2016
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Through travel and circulation and transportation, this moment in the backdrop, is the origins of our current modernity. John locke"s america: thus, in the beginning all the world was america . The discovery of the americas is the discovery of the world in it"s natural original state and will be from this that the current modern ideas of property, government, commerce and labor come from. The discovery of gold and silver in america, the extirpation . these idyllic proceedings are the chief moments of primitive accumulation . Key phrase: all things which characterize the dawn of the era of capitalist production . There is an origin story but not a form of liberation and emergence of new modern societies, it"s a moment of the extinction of another mode of life. Discovery of americas, marx questions the liberation and creating of the new society however agrees with the account that something has changed with this moment of discovery (modernist thinker)
