Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 52)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 52)

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capitalism not be treated as a general concept, but rather, as a
specific interest group (i.e., state, institution or industrial
capital) (Burawoy, 1976).
Relations of production, class contradictions and exploitation, I
would argue, cannot be adequately explained in terms of "capitalist
calculations." The simplistic economism employed here tends to strip
the relationship between the two modes of production of its
contradictory and antagonistic nature, presenting them in a harmonic
co-existence. The articulationist's overemphasis on the commodity
exchange between "cheap labour power" and “low wages," and on the
appropriation of surplus value (from pre-capitalist forms,) undermines
the role of the social relations of production and obscures class
contradictions. For one thing, as some authors have observed, what
capitalism or imperialism "needs" from the colonies, is not limited to
“cheap labour power" (Bradby,1980:112). By reviewing Lenin's and
Luxemburg's theories of Imperialism, Bradby concludes that
capitalism's "exterior needs" are neither permanent nor fixed, rather
they are changeable under different stages of its development
(Bradby,1980:113).
The fact that cheap labour power provides capital with higher rates
of surplus value (Wolpe, 1980) or super profits (Burawoy, 1976), is
not specific to South African or Rhodesian capitalist history. This
phenomenon is characteristic of all peasant societies undergoing
capitalist transition, particularly in the Third World (Lenin, 1960;
Saleh, 1979; Patnaik, 1983; Barakat,1977).
What is objectionable here, however, is the fact that this class
of cheap labourers is treated solely as an economic agent and not as a
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