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Bulldoze 1,000 ha. of rainforest for fun, directly displacing thousands of indigenous people?
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Establish monoculture rubber plantations on 1,000 ha. of grasslands, directly displacing no one?
Points for Further
Discussion?
Primitive Accumulation
Proletarianisation
Economic Efforts in the
Global South
Primitive Accumulation
Capitalism
Neoliberalism
Key Terms
So...
Is primitive accumulation a product of history, or is it bound to happen?
Effects of Primitive Accumulation
Economic Efforts in the Global North
Ecological Impacts
Contextualising Primitive Accumulation
References
"Human beings are the most powerful instruments of production, and therefore, everyone becomes anxious to employ his fellows in the multiplication of his own comforts..."
"Despite high economic growth in the post reforms period... there has been barely any improvement in the working lives of the working class in the Indian labor market."
"The expropriation of the direct producers was accomplished by the means of the most merciless barbarianism..."
Giri & Singh (2015)
"The process by which the bourgeoisie became the politically dominant class... was marked by the establishment of an explicitly coded and formally egalitarian framework..."
"If a people have not acquired [a] habit of industry, the cheapness of all the necessaries of life encourages sloth... the best remedies is to raise the demand for all necessaries"
Changes to the
Cultural Landscape
Dylon Tomasi, Jake Thornton
& Hilton Penfold
Thank You!!
Political Problems
Britain's Need
Would you rather be burned alive, or let 10 random people die?
Success of the Wage-Driven Labour Market
Would you rather let 2,000 random people die, or all of your family & friends?
Would you rather drown to death, or let 5 random people die?
Would you rather die in your sleep tonight, or let one random person die?
Primitive Accumulation & the Developing World
Informality & Precarious Work in Neoliberal India
Discussion:
Reasons for Primitive Accumulation
"Neoliberal theology asserts that unrestricted markets are the most efficient mechanism possible for allocating resources and optimising outcomes for national economies, organisations and individual workers" (p. 25)
If you were the leader of a developing country, with little resources to sell to the developed world, what do you do?
Would you rather be selfish and clever, or selfless
and naive?
Land Concessions in Laos
Would you rather have just enough to get by, or have surplus to either sell for profit or keep for a rainy day?
India
Clean Drinking Water
Healthcare
Security
Technology
Because, why wouldn't you?
Is it worth it?
Human Rights
Property Rights
Agency
Social Security
Education
Laos
Looking to the Future...
Continued...
The 9th Political Report of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
"We accept that there will be some problems with villagers initially, but if we don't change today from local production to industrial production, when will we do it?"
Indirect & Direct
Removal by Force?
OR
Removal by Coercion?