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Robert M. Rosenswig - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Materialism, Mode of Production, and a Millennium of Change in Southern Mexico
    Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2012
    Co-Authors: Robert M. Rosenswig
    Abstract:

    In this paper, I ask why the insights of classical (i.e., materialist) Marxism are not more commonly used by archaeologists of recent academic generations. With evidence from the Soconusco region of Mexico, I explore the relationship between the economic base and political superstructure of the region’s inhabitants as well as evidence for the transformation from a kin-ordered to a tributary Mode of Production. Major esthetic and political transformations occurred across the region when naturalistic standards were replaced by abstract Olmec-style representation beginning approximately 1,400 cal. B.C. In contrast, macrobotanical, ground stone, and faunal patterns from the site of Cuauhtémoc (along with patterns from across the Soconusco) indicated that a major transformation of the economy occurred during the Conchas phase (1,000–850 cal. B.C.). Along with the marked intensification of subsistence Production, the Conchas phase was also when the first system of conical mounds were built at the top three tiers of political centers in the Soconusco. I argue that the use of Modes of Production holds unrealized potential for a materialist interpretation of the past and that the development of a tributary Mode of Production helps explain the changes in the Soconusco after 1,000 cal. B.C.

  • Materialism, Mode of Production, and a Millennium of Change in Southern Mexico
    Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2011
    Co-Authors: Robert M. Rosenswig
    Abstract:

    In this paper, I ask why the insights of classical (i.e., materialist) Marxism are not more commonly used by archaeologists of recent academic generations. With evidence from the Soconusco region of Mexico, I explore the relationship between the economic base and political superstructure of the region’s inhabitants as well as evidence for the transformation from a kin-ordered to a tributary Mode of Production. Major esthetic and political transformations occurred across the region when naturalistic standards were replaced by abstract Olmec-style representation beginning approximately 1,400 cal. B.C. In contrast, macrobotanical, ground stone, and faunal patterns from the site of Cuauhtemoc (along with patterns from across the Soconusco) indicated that a major transformation of the economy occurred during the Conchas phase (1,000–850 cal. B.C.). Along with the marked intensification of subsistence Production, the Conchas phase was also when the first system of conical mounds were built at the top three tiers of political centers in the Soconusco. I argue that the use of Modes of Production holds unrealized potential for a materialist interpretation of the past and that the development of a tributary Mode of Production helps explain the changes in the Soconusco after 1,000 cal. B.C.

Jun Li - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production
    Chinese Civilization in the Making 1766–221 BC, 1996
    Co-Authors: Jun Li
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    In the Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy Marx wrote: ‘In broad lines Asiatic, ancient, feudal, and Modern bourgeois Modes of Production can be designated as progressive epochs in the economic formation of society’ (Marx, 1970: 21). This crucial sentence formally introduced the concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production. This is the only place where Marx succinctly listed it as one of the Modes of Production. Both before and after he penned this passage, Marx wrote many comments about different forms of religion, history, economy and so on in non-European societies, without clearly defining which of these countries were dominated by the AMP. Therefore, two related questions arise: first, how significant was this Mode of Production in Marx’s conceptualization of the world? Second, to what extent can such a conceptualization explain different developments of world history? These two questions have been discussed in great detail by O’Leary in his recent book, The Asiatic Mode of Production (1989). He has argued rigorously that neither Marx nor Engels ever abandoned the substantive conceptual commitment suggested by the AMP (O’Leary, 1989: 146).1 However, O’Leary sought to use his knowledge of Indian history to dismiss the explanatory value of the concept. Without rehearsing detailed arguments suggested by O’Leary, we can conclude that Marx never denied his famous account in the Preface in any of his writings.

  • The Asiatic Mode of Production and the Marxist Theory of History
    Chinese Civilization in the Making 1766–221 BC, 1996
    Co-Authors: Jun Li
    Abstract:

    Is the AMP compatible with the Marxist theory of history? Many scholars believe that the concept contradicts the claim of an overall social progress in historical materialism (O’Leary, 1989: 152–202). However, in this chapter I shall examine two claims which are said to have prevented the AMP from being a scientific concept. The first claim asserts that societies dominated by the AMP are permanently stagnant, while the second maintains that the concept of the AMP has a derogative connotation. Moreover, this so-called derogative connotation is said to be a reflection of Marx’s Eurocentrism. In the first section I shall seek to demonstrate that both social and economic relations in the AMP are in constant movement. The so-called stagnant character of the AMP should be understood in the context of a comparative study between different economic structures in history. Therefore, it is arbitrary to presume that an endogenous development of capitalism is a priori impossible from societies once dominated by the AMP. In the second section I shall contend that the charge of Eurocentrism against Marx is at best misleading. It derives from scholars’ failure to understand Marx’s methodological approach towards historical research between different societies. A brief review of Marx’s sophisticated attitude towards colonialism is an attempt to indicate that Marx’s remarks on nonEuropean societies are nothing but a logical extension of his critique of capitalism.

James A. Delle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • University Press of Florida - The Plantation Mode of Production
    Modes of Production and Archaeology, 2017
    Co-Authors: James A. Delle
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    The use of enslaved labour has long produced a conundrum in the analysis of the Capitalist Mode of Production. By considering the incorporation of slavery into a distinct colonial variant of Capitalism, this chapter explores the concept of the Plantation Mode of Production. To illustrate the utility of this concept, this chapter explores how the Plantation Mode of Production was manifested in coffee plantations in early 19th century Jamaica.

  • the colonial caribbean landscapes of power in the plantation system
    2014
    Co-Authors: James A. Delle
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    1. Landscapes of power in colonial Jamaica 2. His majesty's island: the colonial world of plantation Jamaica 3. The plantation Mode of Production 4. A class for itself: regional landscapes of the planter class 5. Contradictions and dialectics: village landscapes of the enslaved 6. Dialectics and social change: plantation landscapes after slavery 7. Plantation landscapes in comparative perspective 8. Conclusion.

Lei Song - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Modular Mode of Production, Chinese Style: Origin and Evolution
    Evolving Diversity and Interdependence of Capitalisms, 2018
    Co-Authors: Lei Song
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    In this chapter we investigate the origin and evolution of dominant Modes of Production in China’s two leading industries, by paying special attention to the technology and organization. The major research finding is that in China’s Modern manufacturing there exist two kinds of Mode of Production that share similarities yet differ in some respects. The other research finding is that in the foreseeable future, the Modes of Production of the two leading industries will remain modular although the automobile manufacturers are more likely to upgrade their technological capability than their counterparts in the ICT industry.

Sheng Bang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Prof.WU and His Research on Marxist Asiatic Mode of Production
    Journal of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 2020
    Co-Authors: Sheng Bang
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    Professor WU Ze,a famous historian,as a leading role in the research field of Asiatic Mode of Production,has been studying the history of Oriental form of social economy for a long period.In his research,he has offered answers to these questions: Is there "the Asiatic Mode of Production"in the world? Does Chinese Production Mode belong to "the Asiatic Mode of Production"community ?Will China still go along the way of "the Asiatic Mode of Production " in future?It is necessary for us to understand Chinese condition in a deeper meaning of theory in order to find out Chinese Mode of development of society and economy.