Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 48)
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- Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 48)
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Wolpe states:
The exploitation of migrant labour-power of this
kind [i.e., partially expropriated] enables’ the
capitalist sector to secure an increased rate of
surplus value. (Wolpe,1980:297)
This explanation is essentially teleological in nature. Pre-
capitalist relations, it is suggested, continue to exist and "...are
preserved or maintained..." because they are functional to capitalism.
Capitalism, these authors agree, needs a source of cheap labour power
to be reproduced on an expanded scale (Wolpe,1980; Burawoy, 1974;
1976). Consequently, African migrant labourers, or the class of half-
peasant, half-proletariat, must continually be reproduced.
Once more, it must be stressed here that for the articulationists,
the process of "“destruction/maintenance," is neither specific to one
phase of capitalist development, nor is it a transitory process, but
rather it accompanies the whole process of capitalist development.
This was true for the South African case (Wolpe,1980; Burawoy,1976),
the Rhodesian case (Arrighi, 1973) and the Congo experience analysed
by Rey (1980).
There is no doubt that some of the conceptual tools provided by the
notion of articulation represent an advance over other simplistic
notions, for example, the "dependency theory” advocated by Gunder
Frank (Frank, 1969). For, unlike the position adopted by the
dependency theory, pre-capitalist relations in the framework of
articulation, at least at the point of transition, are not perceived
as totally unchanging nor are they described as completely dependent
upon Metropolitan capital (4). The notion of articulation allows for
some room for change ~-~albeit partial and not precise.
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- Nahla Abdo-Zubi
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