Introduction to Studies on Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production: Debates, Controversies and Lines of Argument

This book analyses a variety of historical problems related to pre-capitalist societies and explores both the concept and the range of modes of production arising from the writings of Marx and Engels and subsequent Marxist elaborations. There are differing assessments of the Marxist tradition on pre-capitalist modes of production, which reflects the debate within historical materialism with regard to the potential or the inconsistencies of some of the categories proposed by Marx. The critique of these categories, or the perception that they are insufficient, has led to the elaboration of new concepts such as the domestic mode of production proposed by Claude Meillassoux aimed at the analysis of agrarian lineage societies, Marshall Sahlins’s homonymous concept covering hunter-gatherer societies, or Chris Wickham’s recently proposed peasant mode of production geared to the analysis of agrarian societies without systematic surplus extraction.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (FAHCE

Introduction to Studies on Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production: Debates, Controversies and Lines of Argument

This book analyses a variety of historical problems related to pre-capitalist societies and explores both the concept and the range of modes of production arising from the writings of Marx and Engels and subsequent Marxist elaborations. There are differing assessments of the Marxist tradition on pre-capitalist modes of production, which reflects the debate within historical materialism with regard to the potential or the inconsistencies of some of the categories proposed by Marx. The critique of these categories, or the perception that they are insufficient, has led to the elaboration of new concepts such as the domestic mode of production proposed by Claude Meillassoux aimed at the analysis of agrarian lineage societies, Marshall Sahlins’s homonymous concept covering hunter-gatherer societies, or Chris Wickham’s recently proposed peasant mode of production geared to the analysis of agrarian societies without systematic surplus extraction.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (FAHCE

Sweetly O\u27er My Senses Stealing

Sweetly o\u27er my senses stealing,Fancied pleasures round me rollWhile hope its balmy joys its joys revealing,Sheds its influence o\u27er my soul!Lightly beats lightly beats the heart that never Felt the pangs felt the pangs that wait on loveSadly sighs sadly sighs the breast that everbarter\u27d peace its joys to prove. Hapless mind doom\u27d forever to mournThe sweet peace that can never return The peace that can never return ,Lightly beats lightly beats the heart that neverFelt the pangs felt the pangs that wait on love,Sadly sighs sadly sighs the breast that everBarter\u27d peace its joys to prove,Barter\u27d peace its joys to proveLightly beats lightly beats the heart that never Felt the pangs felt the pangs that wait on love,Sadly sighs the heart that ever barter\u27d peace its joys to prove

Dialogue is a Bridge: Mapping Information Literacy, Social Justice, and Catholic Social Teaching

In the spirit of what Pope Francis calls a “culture of encounter” created through dialogue, first we map points of convergence and potential friction between the ALA Core Values of Librarianship, themes of Catholic social teaching, and recent articulations in library literature of what social justice should mean for libraries. Second, we look at ways these differing sets of values can concretely inform how we think about and teach the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education to our students. The attendee will leave this session with starting points for reconciling LIS values and social justice ideas with Catholic social teaching. The attendee will leave this session with concrete ideas for integrating social justice into the ACRL Information Literacy Framework

Peasant Mode of Production and the Evolution of Clientelar Relations

In order to characterise the relatively autonomous peasant societies that predominated in the early Middle Ages after the collapse of the state, Chris Wickham has proposed the concept of ‘peasant mode of production’. This concept refines his earlier category of ‘peasant-based society’, which the author presented as ‘deliberately anodyne’, better than the notions of ‘tribal’, ‘primitive communal’ or ‘kin-based’ societies, less naïve and restricted than that of ‘Germanic society’ inspired in Tacitus, and close to that of ‘rank society’ by reason of its distinctness from societies with class antagonism, which it shares with the former types, and its clearer recognition of internal hierarchies. This perspective has furnished a paradigm for the analysis of the early Middle Ages societies as parts of a coherent whole, which justifies a reworking of the category of peasantbased society in terms of mode of production, a task undertaken byWickham in Framing the Early Middle Ages(a peasant-based society would be a social formation dominated by the peasant mode of production). However, the author’s theoretical approach has had less of an impact than his achievements in the field of comparative studies and empirical research.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació

Peasant Mode of Production and the Evolution of Clientelar Relations

In order to characterise the relatively autonomous peasant societies that predominated in the early Middle Ages after the collapse of the state, Chris Wickham has proposed the concept of ‘peasant mode of production’. This concept refines his earlier category of ‘peasant-based society’, which the author presented as ‘deliberately anodyne’, better than the notions of ‘tribal’, ‘primitive communal’ or ‘kin-based’ societies, less naïve and restricted than that of ‘Germanic society’ inspired in Tacitus, and close to that of ‘rank society’ by reason of its distinctness from societies with class antagonism, which it shares with the former types, and its clearer recognition of internal hierarchies. This perspective has furnished a paradigm for the analysis of the early Middle Ages societies as parts of a coherent whole, which justifies a reworking of the category of peasantbased society in terms of mode of production, a task undertaken byWickham in Framing the Early Middle Ages(a peasant-based society would be a social formation dominated by the peasant mode of production). However, the author’s theoretical approach has had less of an impact than his achievements in the field of comparative studies and empirical research.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació

Peasant Mode of Production and the Evolution of Clientelar Relations

In order to characterise the relatively autonomous peasant societies that predominated in the early Middle Ages after the collapse of the state, Chris Wickham has proposed the concept of ‘peasant mode of production’. This concept refines his earlier category of ‘peasant-based society’, which the author presented as ‘deliberately anodyne’, better than the notions of ‘tribal’, ‘primitive communal’ or ‘kin-based’ societies, less naïve and restricted than that of ‘Germanic society’ inspired in Tacitus, and close to that of ‘rank society’ by reason of its distinctness from societies with class antagonism, which it shares with the former types, and its clearer recognition of internal hierarchies. This perspective has furnished a paradigm for the analysis of the early Middle Ages societies as parts of a coherent whole, which justifies a reworking of the category of peasantbased society in terms of mode of production, a task undertaken byWickham in Framing the Early Middle Ages(a peasant-based society would be a social formation dominated by the peasant mode of production). However, the author’s theoretical approach has had less of an impact than his achievements in the field of comparative studies and empirical research.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació

The Asian mode of production: Considerations around ancient Egypt

En este artículo se expondrá la vigencia de las proposiciones de Marx y Engels, con sus contradicciones y sus variaciones en el tiempo, respecto del modo de producción asiático. En particular, trataremos la conexión con el proceso histórico en el Antiguo Egipto, especialmente en relación con la organización estatal. Analizaremos, en parte también, cómo esas elaboraciones de los autores alemanes fueron recibidas y transformadas por la historiografía marxista más relevante.This article studies the validity of Marx and Engels’ propositions –with their contradictions and variations through time- regarding the Asiatic Mode of Production. In particular, the relation to historical processes in Ancient Egypt, especially concerning the state organization, will be studied. The article will also analyze how these elaborations by the German scholars were received and transformed by the main exponents of Marxist historiography