Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 44)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 44)

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modes of production.
Overgeneralizing peasant passivity and changelessness to all social
formations, some authors argue, results in an oversimplification of
peasant societies. By lumping together all peasantry, the
articulationists, it is maintained, homogenize all peasants and ignore
differentiations amongst them (Bagchi,1982; Saleh,1979; Barakat,1977;
Foster-Carter,1978; Bradby,1980). Moreover, this overgeneralization
masks the historical specificity of each case and consequently fails
to understand issues of regional and local variations within the same
social formation (Barker,1984; Taiseer,A. and et.al.,1984).
At this level of analysis, and in so far as pre-capitalist
structures are concerned, the notion of articulation provides an
extremely inadequate and simplistic account. However, as mentioned
earlier, the contribution of the concept of ‘articulation’ to the
question of change and development does not lie at this level, but
rather at the level of analysing the process of capitalist transition
once capitalism is already in place.
Articulation and Colonial Capitalism
As mentioned earlier, the articulation model's main contribution to
the study of change and development lies in its perception of the
process of articulation or transition. During colonialism,
articulationists argue, a new mode of production referred to as' the
"transitional mode of production" dominates all other forms of
production with which it interacts. This "...new mode of production..."
is independent from capitalism and different from any pre-capitalist
mode of production. It is a new economic system which combines’ both
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