Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 98)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 98)

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First, there 1s the Indian debate of the late 1970's which
centred round the contributions of Alavi, Banaji,
Chattopadhyay, Patnaik and Rudra, on the question of whether
Indian agriculture could be described as capitalist or not.
The Indian debate was essentially substantive, though it did
raise a number of theoretical questions which were never
adequately resolved. (29)
Rudra inaugurated the debate by attempting to show by
inductive statistical methods that Indian agriculture was not
"capitalist" and must therefore be feudal in character. (30)
Tne theoretical and methodological basis of this position was
criticised by Patnaik who agreed with the substantive point
that Indian agriculture was not capitalist in nature. (31)
The theoretical issues in the debate were esentially
established by the work of Patnaik and Chattopadhayay rather
than Rudra. Chattopadhayay argued that there were substantial
components of generalised commodity production and sectors
where labour power was itself a commodity within Indian
agriculture. The sectors where this applied he argued were
capitalist in form. (32) Patnaik responded that this was not
a sufficient condition to characterise these sectors as
capitalist. In order to argue the existence of capitalism,
she claimed that these two conditions would have to be
accompanied by accumulation through the investment and re-
investment of surplus value. Since this was not happening,
she argued that capitalism could not be said to exist per se.
Patnaik showed that this third condition was absent due to
the external imperialist relations imposed on India by
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