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The Formation of Capitalist Agriculture in Latin America and Its Relationship to Political Power and the State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Anthony Winson
Anthony Winson
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University of Toronto
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Among the various weaknesses that characterize much of the literature concerning political phenomena in Latin America, there are a few that appear to be fundamental. One serious criticism that could be made concerns the marked ahistoricity of many studies, exemplified by the tendency to take certain social structural features as given in this context, such as the existence of an oligarchy, a more or less undifferentiated impoverished mass, and a weak and politically insignificant middle class. This static and ahistorical consideration of structural phenomenon is directly related to a further weakness of such literature, this being the tendency to isolate political processes from what is in fact a dynamic socioeconomic reality, and thereby reduce the former to the interplay of more or less circumstantial factors.

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Politics of Capitalist Agriculture
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 83 - 104
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1983

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