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<body><br><br>Dennis Redmond wrote:<br><br>"privatization isn't automatically primitive accumulation. There's nothing primitive about <br>Chinese accumulation, or about East Asia's slickly engineered developmental states."<br><br>Bear in mind that the phrase Marx preferred was "the so-called primitive accumulation",<br>which "is nothing else than the historical process of <i>divorcing the producer from the <br>means of production</i>." My sense is that since Harvey accepts that China was some<br>variant of socialism, the privatisations in China can be understood in precisely those<br>terms.<br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling"><br /><hr />Be one of the first to try <a href='http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d' target='_new'>Windows Live Mail.</a></body>
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