primitive accumulation in a sentence
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- Marx s theory of primitive accumulation describes how the capitalist system needs to continually expand into non-capitlaist sectors which would have originally taken place through imperialism . which refers to this notion of expansion but considers it inherent within the capitalist system, which will find ways other than imperialism to achieve its goal.
- In his book " Das Kapital ", in Chapter 26 entitled " The Secret of Primitive Accumulation " and Chapter 27, " Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land ", Marx claimed that the feudal relationships of serfdom were violently transformed into private property and free labour : free of possession and free to sell their labour force on the market.
- In fact Marx argues that the original or primitive accumulation of capital often occurs through violence, plunder, slavery, robbery, extortion and theft . He argues that the capitalist mode of production requires that people be forced to work in value-adding production for someone else, and for this purpose, they must be cut off from sources of income other than selling their labor power.