The Agrarian Question

Kautsky, Karl Johann

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“…7. Disdain for the "backwards" peasantry has been a hegemonic position within some sections of Marxism over the 150 years since The Housing Question (Banaji, 1990: 298;Byres, 1991;Kautsky, 1988), while also being challenged (Hauser, 1993;Omvedt, 1991;Roy, 2014Roy, , 2015Varghese, 2021). 8.…”

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The Housing Question, ground rent theory, and differentiation vs. homogenization

Manning¹

2021

Human Geography

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This essay takes Engels’ The Housing Question as a provocation to (1) apply ground rent theory to housing (something which Engels neglected to do) and (2) investigate Engels’ conflation of housing struggles with the concerns of a “backwards” peasantry. I show that applying Marx’s ground rent theory to housing illuminates aspects of the housing question heretofore unexamined—in particular, the significance of the relationship between landowner and capitalist in housing. I then show that Engels’ dismissal of housing struggles and land-based struggles more broadly is rooted in the specious belief that proletarianization homogenizes people. Engels’ spurious logic nonetheless sets in relief an important connection: I suggest that only through grasping what Cedric Robinson has called racialization or differentiation and what Sylvia Wynter has named nonhomogeneity can we recognize the theoretical and practical centrality of housing and other land-based struggles to revolution and abolition.

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The Housing Question, ground rent theory, and differentiation vs. homogenization

Manning¹

2021

Human Geography

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“…The lack of a specific focus on the impact of state-led dispossession on debt is surprising given the large literature in agrarian political economy examining indebtedness as a cause of land loss. 12 Classical scholars of agrarian political economy (Chayanov, 1966;Kautsky, 1988;Lenin, 1964;Marx, 1976) posited that the expansion of debt relations aids in the polarization of agrarian class structures, generating capitalist farmers on one end and a proletariat bereft of wares to sell (Marx, 1976) on the other. Newer scholarship has applied classical Marxist formulations deriving 9 Other studies have similarly shown how, following land expropriations, agrarian elites are able to secure permanent employment in new companies and insert themselves at the top of labor recruiting hierarchies (Benbabaali, 2018).…”

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Indebted by dispossession: The long‐term impacts of a Special Economic Zone on caste inequality in rural Telangana

Agarwal

2021

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This paper contributes to a growing scholarship examining the ways in which dispossession in neoliberal India is reinforcing and reconfiguring agrarian social hierarchies. Existing studies have focussed on the differential successes of villagers in Special Economic Zone (SEZ)-generated real estate markets, incorporation of land losers into stratified labour markets and the caste-based politics of dispossession. Few studies, however, have systematically explored the long-term implications of state-orchestrated dispossession on agrarian credit and debt relations. Based on longterm fieldwork on a village partially expropriated for a SEZ in the South Indian state of Telangana, this study shows how dispossession has led to a sharp rise of overindebtedness within the land losing population. Dispossession deprived villagers of land and livestock; low compensation was inadequate to obtain replacement assets; and labour inside the SEZ was insufficient to ensure

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“…Si les divers processus évoqués ci-dessus se manifestent sur la quasi-totalité de la planète, cela ne signifie pas pour autant uniformisation et création d'un « système alimentaire mondial ». La distinction entre les « états » et les « tendances » (Kautsky, 1988) est ici importante. Les tendances influencent potentiellement l'ensemble des pays, mais les effets de ces tendances (les états qui en résultent) peuvent toutefois diverger radicalement d'un territoire à l'autre, en raison de la diversité des situations initiales et des résistances rencontrées, voire des oppositions induites.…”

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Une écologie de l'alimentation

Bricas¹,

Conaré²,

Walser³

2021

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Repenser nos alimentations, c’est repenser nos sociétés. Car partager un repas et même faire ses courses sont des moyens de se relier aux autres. La façon de nous nourrir construit notre santé. Nos modes de production agricole façonnent nos paysages et définissent notre place dans la nature. Gérer des ressources pour produire, pour transformer et pour distribuer les aliments fonde nos économies. Nos registres du comestible, nos cuisines et nos manières de table racontent nos cultures. Enfin, et surtout, manger est un plaisir… C’est en reconnaissant toutes ces dimensions avec une égale importance que cet ouvrage aborde les enjeux contemporains de l’alimentation. La proposition d’une écologie de l’alimentation s’ancre dans le double registre d’une science des relations et d’un engagement politique. Une telle approche permet de revisiter, parfois de façon inattendue, les mots d’ordre de l’alimentation durable. Elle vise aussi à nourrir les démarches citoyennes, publiques et privées engagées dans la transformation des systèmes alimentaires. Entre essai d’experts et récit illustré d’exemples tirés des quatre coins du monde, cet ouvrage s’adresse aussi bien aux professionnels qu’à un grand public curieux des questions d’alimentation durable.

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The Agrarian Question

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The Housing Question, ground rent theory, and differentiation vs. homogenization

The Housing Question, ground rent theory, and differentiation vs. homogenization

Indebted by dispossession: The long‐term impacts of a Special Economic Zone on caste inequality in rural Telangana

Une écologie de l'alimentation

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