SOC103H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Abstract And Concrete, W. M. Keck Observatory, Chiquita Brands International
Document Summary
Globalization of primitive accumulation: primitive accumulation begins to take place in the new world, millions of indigenous peoples are displaced from their lands and these lands become private property. Their excuse was that they were uncivilized thus, the land was empty. However this was not the truth, they were just not used for capitalist purposes: depending on the geographic location, they were used for agriculture, mining, small scale farming etc. When we imagine everything in a global scale we see different flows: the flow of natural resources or raw materials from south to north, or labour flows etc. The triangular trade: patterns of flows across the world. Were not triangular but more rectangular and wasn"t really a trade because they were forcing people out of their lands. Class inequality in europe was replicated in the world scale: class inequality within the colonizers, the poor and also under the poor.
