Graeber, David (2006) Turning modes of production inside out: or, why capitalism is a transformation of slavery. Critique of Anthropology, 26 (1). pp. 61-85. ISSN 0308-275X
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Marxist theory has by now largely abandoned the (seriously flawed) notion of the ‘mode of production’, but doing so has only encouraged a trend to abandon much of what was radical about it and naturalize capitalist categories. This article argues a better conceived notion of a mode of production - one that recognizes the primacy of human production, and hence a more sophisticated notion of materialism - might still have something to show us: notably, that capitalism, or at least industrial capitalism, has far more in common with, and is historically more closely linked with, chattel slavery than most of us had ever imagined.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://coa.sagepub.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2006 SAGE Publications |
| Divisions: | Anthropology |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Sep 2013 09:19 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2025 22:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/53234 |
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