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Moreno Zacarés, Javier (2018) Beyond market dependence : the origins of capitalism in Catalonia. Journal of Agrarian Change, 18 (4). pp. 749-767. doi:10.1111/joac.12263
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12263
Abstract
Buried in the footnotes of his famous 1976 essay, Robert Brenner left the remark that Catalonia had experienced an agrarian transition to capitalism in parallel to England. This important claim has been completely forgotten by his followers of the political Marxist tradition, who since then have developed his views on the origins of capitalism. Building on the specialist literature, this article revisits the question of the Catalan transition through the prism of political Marxism and teases out its implications. In particular, it argues that the Catalan case illustrates the centrality of agency and subjectivity in the process of capitalist change. Contrary to Brenner's claim, this paper will argue that pre‐capitalist social property relations persisted in agriculture throughout the period of transition. Instead, the region's capitalist breakthrough was prompted by sociocultural struggles in its 18th‐century proto‐industry.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Capitalism -- Catalonia (Spain) -- 17th century, Agriculture -- Catalonia (Spain) -- 17th century, Capitalism -- Catalonia (Spain) -- 18th century, Agriculture -- Catalonia (Spain) -- 18th century | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Agrarian Change | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1471-0358 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | October 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 18 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 749-767 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/joac.12263 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
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