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The Classical Agrarian Question: Myth, Reality and Relevance Today
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This article traces a particular view of the classical agrarian question in Marxian political economy which has sustained the myth of industrialization as the basic objective of transformation. The idea was born in the late nineteenth century among the European vanguard, then consolidated as an axiom during the Cold War, only to be resurrected in the neoliberal period by a professionalized discipline of ‘agrarian studies’. This article argues that such a view fails to acknowledge the historic importance of the national question and its land and peasant components, which are irreducible to industrialization. The article restores national sovereignty to its proper place in the classical agrarian question and argues that it remains the cornerstone of all other dimensions of the agrarian question, including gender equity and ecological sustainability.
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LVC insisted on the rural world's centrality, contradicting urban-developmentalist narratives positing the countryside's end as necessary for the global South's development.
“It insisted on the rural world ' s centrality, contradicting urban-developmentalist narratives positing the countryside ' s end as necessary for the global South ' s development (Ajl 2014; Bernstein 2006; Moyo, Jha, and Yeros 2013).”
From Delinking, food sovereignty, and populist agronomy: notes on an intellectual history of the peasant path in the global South (2018) · cites this paper as Moyo, Jha, and Yeros 2013
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- Authors
- Moyo, S., Jha, P., & Yeros, P.
- Affiliations
- Sam Moyo is Executive Director of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS), Harare, Zimbabwe.
- Praveen Jha is Chairperson of the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies (CISLS) and faculty at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), School of Social Sciences (SSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India.
- Paris Yeros is Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), São Paulo, Brazil.
- Venue
- Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2013-04
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 93-119
- ISSN
- 2277-9760
- 2321-0281
- Cited by
- 98
- References
- 2
- Language
- en
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