Primitive Accumulation, Enclavity, Rural Marginalisation & Articulation

Abstract

In March 2006, the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for Civil Society in Durban aimed to reinvigorate a tradition of political economy by considering the legacies of Guy Mhone and José Negrão (who died in 2005) along with two others whose work was based on accounts of ‘primitive accumulation’: Rosa Luxemburg and South African sociologist Harold Wolpe (who died in 1996). The analytical traditions are diverse but complementary. Together they capture many of the ways that primitive accumulation continues to structure and reproduce systems of inequality.

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1. Some of the other Colloquium contributions are being published in a Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung/ CCS volume, The Accumulation of Capital in Southern Africa: Rosa Luxemburg's Contemporary Relevance. We had sponsorship from the Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust, the National Research Foundationof SA and Norwegian Research Council, the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and the SA-Netherlands Programme for Research Alternatives in Development. Papers are available at http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?5,75.

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Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond, Patrick Bond is professor at University of KwaZulu-Natal Schoolof Development Studies where he directs the Centre for Civil Society and is involved in research on economic justice, energy and water. Recent books include Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation (http://www.zedbooks.co.uk) and Talk Left Walk Right: South Africa's Frustrated Global Reforms (www.ukznpress.co.za); e-mail: [email protected]