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Pre - Capitalist Eco Formations

In 'Pre-capitalist Economic Formations', Karl Marx examines the historical processes that led to the emergence of capitalism, arguing it resulted from changes in social relations rather than technological advancements. He critiques the ideology that views capitalism as a natural and inevitable outcome, highlighting the historical violence and dispossession involved. The upcoming presentation will explore the core arguments of the text and its relevance to the themes of evolution and anthropology.

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Pre - Capitalist Eco Formations

In 'Pre-capitalist Economic Formations', Karl Marx examines the historical processes that led to the emergence of capitalism, arguing it resulted from changes in social relations rather than technological advancements. He critiques the ideology that views capitalism as a natural and inevitable outcome, highlighting the historical violence and dispossession involved. The upcoming presentation will explore the core arguments of the text and its relevance to the themes of evolution and anthropology.

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Name: Ritika Choudhary

Enrolment number: 24/65/HS/019


Pre-capitalist Economic formations by Karl Marx

Pre-capitalist economic formations is a section written by Marx in his book


‘Grundrisse’, originally published in 1857-58 under the name ‘The Formen’,
which was a preparatory material for his ‘Critique of Political Economy’ and
‘Capital’. This is considered as a mature work of Marx which was never meant
to be published. It provides a systematic attempt to address how capitalism
didn’t just emerge naturally but was an outcome of the complex historical
process. In this work, he is looking at configurations of material relationships,
that how society organized itself through time at different times and different
spaces. Marx has argued in a great detail that Capitalism didn’t emerge out of
technological advancements, but with the changes in social relations. It was the
internal contradictions and dynamic processes that led to the transformations
and dissolutions of the pre-capitalist societies and the generation of ‘free’
labourers. Marx has tried to debunk the ideology which advocates, ‘capitalism’
as natural, just and inevitable and have argued that it is the historical violence,
dispossession and the transformation of original conditions of labour that has
led the society to the stage of capitalism.
In the upcoming presentation, I’ll be giving an overview of the core argument of
the text and why it is important for our theme, i.e., ‘evolution’ in particular, and
for ‘anthropology’ on the whole. The societies that Marx has taken into
consideration while proving his theory would help us understand the basic
structure of the text. We will also briefly encounter how Marx’s work has
maintained it’s legacy in the neo-evolutionary era.

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