Review of Economic Philosophy

Tag: Colonization

  • Is capitalism an intrinsically violent system? A Benjaminian reading of the concept of primitive accumulation in Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg and David Harvey

    Abstract

    Marxist economic theory accounts for the relationship between capitalism and violence by using the concept of primitive accumulation. This article proposes to show how this concept was constructed and developed by analysing three stages: first its initial elaboration by Karl Marx (primitive accumulation as the prehistory of capital), then a first extension by Rosa Luxemburg (primitive accumulation as a current movement of geographical extension of the logic of capital from the centre to the periphery), and finally a second extension by David Harvey (primitive accumulation as a movement of “internal” recolonisation and “accumulation by dispossession”). The article proposes to articulate these three stages on the basis of the dialectic between law and violence as problematized by the philosopher Walter Benjamin (2018).

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  • The Transformations of Marx’s Thought on Colonization

    Abstract

    This article analyzes the evolutions of Marx’s positions on colonization. It first emphasizes the invariant of his reflections: the denunciation of colonial violence. We initially find an interpretation of colonization as a process of modernization, then as a dynamic of “destruction-regeneration,” linked to the “unification of the world.” The author identifies above all the successive inflections of Marx’s – resolutely critical – thought about colonial and national issues, the non-linear character of history, and the differentiation of social formations.

    Codes JEL: B14, B51, N10.

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  • The Transformations of Marx’s Thought on Colonization

    Abstract

    This article analyzes the evolutions of Marx’s positions on colonization. It first emphasizes the invariant of his reflections : the denunciation of colonial violence. We initially find an interpretation of colonization as a process of modernization, then as a dynamic of “destruction-regeneration,” linked to the “unification of the world.” The author identifies above all the successive inflections of Marx’s – resolutely critical – thought about colonial and national issues, the non-line

    Outline

    • Introduction
    • L’invariant de la réflexion : la dénonciation de la violence coloniale
    • Au point de départ, la modernisation et la civilisation
    • La colonisation comme dynamique de destruction-régénération
    • Le processus d’unification du monde, marche vers la révolution
    • Inflexion N° 1 : questions coloniale et nationale
    • Inflexion N° 2 : histoire non linéaire et bonds en avant
    • Inflexion N° 3 : différenciation des formations sociales
    • Seconde rupture ou rupture continue avec Hegel ?
    • Conclusion

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    Codes JEL : B14, B51, N10

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