primitive accumulation

collocation in English

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primitive
adjective
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/ˈprɪm.ɪ.tɪv/us
/ˈprɪm.ə.t̬ɪv/
relating to human society at a very early stage of development, with people living in a simple way without machines or a ...
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accumulation
noun[U or C]
uk
/əˌkjuː.mjəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/əˌkjuː.mjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
an amount of something that has ...
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Harvey's (2003) argument for 'accumulation by dispossession' suggests the continued presence of 'primitiveaccumulation', premised on enclosure and privatisation.
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Economic development then became a question of how private property rights could be established everywhere, so that markets could expand (see alsoprimitiveaccumulation).
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These idyllic proceedings are the chief moments ofprimitiveaccumulation.
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In his theory,primitiveaccumulationis part of the "uneven and combined development" of capitalism on a world scale.
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They seeprimitiveaccumulationas a process happening in the transition from the feudal stage to the capitalist stage.
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The so-calledprimitiveaccumulation, therefore, is nothing else than the historical process of divorcing the producer from the means of production.
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This self-expropriation served asprimitiveaccumulationfor the capitalists, and therefore, was the catalyst for capitalism in the colonies.
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Production for use in some form was the historically dominant modality until the initialprimitiveaccumulationof capital.
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Because he represents bourgeois wealth acquired through trade and not aristocraticprimitiveaccumulation his daughters are happy to take his money, but will see him only in private.
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Because it is a fundamental tool of capitalist initiation and restoration, and because the rate of profit always begins to fall, sooner or later,primitiveaccumulationhits us all.
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Primitiveaccumulationprecedes capitalism in providing the accumulation of wealth and resources to induce less fortunate people to enter into a highly unequal relationship with a capitalist.
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Instead, she posits thatprimitiveaccumulationis a fundamental characteristic of capitalism itselfthat capitalism, in order to perpetuate itself, requires a constant infusion of expropriated capital.
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Moore consequently focuses attention on the grand movements ofprimitiveaccumulation, colonialism, and the globalization of town-country relations that characterized early modern capitalism.
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It was developed as a counterpart to the process of theprimitiveaccumulationof capital that took place during the early stages and development of capitalist economies.
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The expansion of capitalist markets involved processes ofprimitiveaccumulationand privatization, which transferred more and more assets into capitalist private property, and concentrated wealth in fewer and fewer hands.
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Marxs theory ofprimitiveaccumulationdescribes how the capitalist system needs to continually expand into non-capitlaist sectors which would have originally taken place through imperialism.
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