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- Title
PERSISTENCE AS AN HISTORICALLY SPECIFIC POSSIBILITY .
- Authors
Koc, Mustafa
- Abstract
Despite the pessimistic predictions of the classical theories of capitalist development, simple commodity production (SCP) has continued to persist under capitalism. While some, following the classic Marxist-Leninist interpretation, insist that SCP is only a transitional phenomenon and will disappear eventually, others argue that necessary conditions for the reproduction of simple commodity producing families may exist within capitalist formations and as long as these conditions exist, persistence of SCP will not be an anomaly. There are also significant differences between those who argue that SCP can survive under capitalism, in explaining the reasons for its persistence in agriculture. For this reason significant variations occur throughout the world, depending on the way it relates to the dominant capitalist mode of production. This paper will examine the post-World War II transformation in the tobacco sector that led to the consolidation of small ownership and simple commodity production in the Aegean region of Turkey. Within the given historical and commodity context, this paper will examine the natural imperatives of tobacco production, characteristics of family production, the tobacco market and state policies and their roles in the emergence and persistence of SCP in tobacco production in Aegean, Turkey.
- Subjects
AEGEAN Islands (Greece &; Turkey); TURKEY; TOBACCO -- Harvesting; AGRICULTURAL economics; CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC development; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Sociologia Ruralis, 1989, Vol 29, Issue 3/4, p280
- ISSN
0038-0199
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9523.1989.tb00371.x