[lbo-talk] Primitive accumulation - Harvey on Marx

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Dennis Redmond wrote:"privatization isn't automatically primitive accumulation. There's nothing primitive about Chinese accumulation, or about East Asia's slickly engineered developmental states."Bear in mind that the phrase Marx preferred was "the so-called primitive accumulation",which "is nothing else than the historical process of divorcing the producer from the means of production."  My sense is that since Harvey accepts that China was somevariant of socialism, the privatisations in China can be understood in precisely thoseterms.
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