Political Economy of Agrarian Question and Agrarian Transition : A Brief Survey
Keywords:
Agrarian Question, Agrarian Transition, Primitive Accumulation, Class StruggleAbstract
This paper presents a brief survey of “agrarian question” and “agrarian transition” by offering the analyses and approaches of classical Marxist political economists, as well as those of the current critical political economists, whose ideas can be summed up as seven agrarian questions. This is followed by a brief discussion on “agrarian transition,” in selected countries, an ending with some concluding observations.
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