Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 94)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 94)

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the authorities of military occupation. In the framework
which follows I will pay rather more attention to the social
relations of production axis than to, what we might
provisionally call, the settler colonial state axis.
While it is possible to outline the variety of theoretical
paradigms operative in the analysis of the Third World, which
could help to explain poverty and underdevelopment in the
north Jordan Valley - e.g. modernisation theory, development
theory, peasant society theory, dependency theory and the
critique of underdevelopment (17) - this would be a rather
sterile excercise since these different conceptual approaches
are either paradigmatically incommensurable or limited in
analytic and explanatory scope. (18) Rather, I will attempt
to positively outline the most salient concepts for a
Marxist-realist analysis of the phenomenon of
underdevelopment. (19) I will then proceed to utilise these
concepts in a concrete analysis of social relations in the
north Jordan Valley.
II!. SOCIAL FORMATION AND MODES OF PRODUCTION OR THE
ARTICULATION OF MODES OF PRODUCTION
For a long period in its historical development much Marxist
historiography and social theory has been marred by a
contradictory teleological strand. This is grounded on the
assumption, either implicit or explicit, that pre-capitalist
forms of production would eventually be superceded by the
capitalist mode of production. Among the purveyors of this
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Alex Pollock

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