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Enzo Mingione is Professor of Urban and Rural Sociology and Director of the
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Introduction
happening
inagriculture something
practices
-
different from earlier
agricultural
different from earlier of
and, importantly, qualitatively stages
capitalist
agriculture. What can begenetically called the food sector has been
repeatedly and qualitatively transformed over the last sesquicentenaiy.
Most recently, the economic crisis of the early 1970s, a crisis substantially
a product of larger structural cycles within capitalism and, more specific to
1
See Friedmann 1987, for a summary of the recent transitions of the global food
economy, and Agnew and Corbridge 1989, Gordon 1988 and Thrift 1989 for
, ,
and marxist -
and demand a new theoretical approach to political
economy,
an approach with which this volume seeks to grapple. The principal
theoretical variations emerging in the literature and major theoretical issues
at stake within the political economy of agriculture will then be discussed.
Question)
was enormously influential in shaping the views
political
of the marxist
parties in die early 1900s. The second, V.I. Lenin's The Development
of Capitalism in Russia (1943a [1899]), while influential in Russia, did not
have a significant impact on marxist thinking outside of Russia until after
the Russian revolution of 1917, a revolution which elevated Lenin's
writings
into canon for several generations of marxists.3
While Kautsky's writing in Germany at the turn of the century in
effect "settled" die agrarian question for most marxists fa* the next seven
decades, in fact, neither he no- Lenin wrote their studies because they were
interested in agriculture in itself. It is only possible to understand how
agriculture, as a sphere of production, came to be studied by marxists by
considering the problematics that spurred the production of these two
now-classical studies of agriculture. 4
2
The attention Marx gave to agriculture far transcends the ubiquitous quotations
about "the idiocy of rural life" sad the likening of the peasantry to "a sack of potatoes."
For a thorough discussion of Marx's writings on agriculture and natural resources, see
Pcrelmsn 1990. Specifically, there were four major foci in Marx's analyses of
agriculture: (1) the expropriation of the peasantry as a basis for primitive accumulation
(especially in Capital Vol. 1, and Theories of Surplus Value; (2) an occasional
implication that independent peasant production of commodities exists outside the
capitalist mode of production (in Theories of Surplus Value); (3) the theory of ground
rent (in Capital Vols. 2 and 3); and (4) the (often misinterpreted) comment in The
Eighteenth Brumaire about the peasantry being like "a sack of potatoes."
3
Lenin was far more prolific in writing about agriculture and the peasantry than
Kautsky, a reflection of the industrial backwardness of Russia and the much greater
social importance of the Russian peasantry. See, for example, Lenin 1943 b (written in
1908 but not published until 1918), and 1943c [1903].
4
For a thorough analysis of the agrarian question in marxist circles in the early
stages of the development of marxist and socialist movements see Hussain and Tribe
1981. Volume 1 of this two-volume publication deals with "German Social Democracy
aid the Peasantry 1890-1907"; Volume 2 discusses "Russian Marxism and the
Peasantry 1861-1930."
Kautsky's Die Agrarfrage was published in 1899.5 This study
attempted to resolve an issue which had arisen within the German Social
Democratic Party as to the relationship of the German peasantry to social
democracy (i.e., the parliamentary road to socialist power). The debate
arose out of the rapid growth of the party and its successes in winning the
loyalty and adherence of the urban proletariat Some segments of the party
leadership were concerned that the structure of German politics would
preclude
the party from achieving political power unless the party's base was
broadened beyond the proletariat. In 1894, Georg von Vollmar and several
other German social-democrats suggested that the party begin the active
pursuit of a peasant following (Russell 196S: 152-163; Steenson 1981 :
181-188). It was as part of this debate, culminating in the abandonment of
the peasantry at the Breslau Congress in 189S, that Kautsky wrote what
later emerged as Die Agrarfrage.
Published only a decade after the legalization of the party, it should
be noted that the debate on the peasantry took place in the context of the
larger debate over what came to be known as revisionism (Steenson 1978 :
Chapter 4 83-131). Revisionists in the German Social Democratic Party
,
5
No English translation of Die Agrarfrage appeared is its entirety until 1988
(Kautsky 1988 [1899]). Prior to this time, an early application by an American
socialist appeared several years after Kautsky'a publication (Simons 1903). The only
appearance of significant portions of Die Agrarfrage in English took the form of s
translation by Banaji in 1976 in Economy and Society (see also Btatfi 1980).
6
For an excellent summary of these debates, see Husstin and Tribe (1981); for &
collection of major documents in these debates, see Hussaia and Tribe (1984).
establish capitalism in Russia.7 Later, they saw the czarist state as Russia's
"main capitalist force," the creator and defender of the exploitative classes
which yielded a capitalism that was intrinsically parasitic and unstable
because of its dependence on foreign markets. The Narodniks nonetheless
held that it would be feasible to skip the capitalist stage of development
and make a direct transition to a socialist society based on traditional
socialistic forms (the Russian commune, or mir found among Russia's
peasantry).
Lenin, in company with other marxists of the time, in opposition to
the Narodnik analysis, argued that capitalism was already established in
Russia and was developing extensively despite its immediate weaknesses.
Lenin confronted a very different situation than did Kautsky: the sheer size
and weight of Russia's peasantry constituted a very different social
situation
from that of Germany since, by comparison, Russian capital and the
Russian proletariat woe minuscule. Concentrated in a handful of major
industrial locations and still rooted in its peasant background, Russia's
proletariat was only beginning to manifest feeble organizational capabilities
when Lenin addressed the development of capitalism in Russia.
Lenin therefore had a dual problematic. On the one hand, he had to
explain capitalist development in Russia; on the other, he had to come to
grips with what appeared to be the central role that Russia's peasantry
might play in the coming revolutionary struggle. The Development of
Capitalism
in Russia, written by Lenin while banished by the Czar to Siberia
in the late b and published in 1899, the same year that Kautsky's
work was published, represented Lenin's struggle with these problematics.
Reluctant to abandon the peasantry as a revolutionary force, Lenin
consideredthe political role of the peasantry in The Development..., as well as
in other analyses, as he struggled to resolve the vexing question of the
peasantry's relationship to the proletariat After all, had not Engels (1978
[1850]) written extensively on the question of peasant revolt?
Lenin's "resolution" had him at odds with many of his Social
Democratic
comrades. Rather than focusing his interests exclusively on the
proletariat, Lenin contended that the possibilities of a proletarian and
8
peasant revolutionary alliance should not be overlooked. This was a
position
to which he would adhere in a variety of writings for the better part
7
It should be recognized, however, as Shanin (1984 : 8) has stressed, that the
Narodniks were quite heterogeneous in composition and beliefs. It is mainly due to
Lenin's writings, in which he used the notion of populism to pertain to a handful of
texts, that the characterizations in this paragraph have come to represent the ostensibly
dominant tendencies in Russian populism.
8Strains of this position lasted through to his "Preliminary Draft of Theses on the
Agrarian Question" ( Lenin 1943e [1920JX in which he maintained that the dispossessed
agrarian strata could be a (partial) social base for revolutionary socialism.
of a decade before, finally, like Kautsky, turning exclusively to the
proletariat in the search of revolutionary energy.
The issue of the peasantry and agriculture
-
was effectively
-
"settled,"
at least until the Russian revolution of 1917, with the publication of
Die Agrarfrage, which quickly became a classic in Europe. This work was
translated into most European languages the sole major exception being
-
consequential
social class, that they were fated to be proletarianized, and that
agriculture would follow the general outlines and patterns of industry's
development. 9
After Kautsky's and Lenin's works "settled" the issue of the peasantry
and agriculture, part of the loss of interest by marxists in agriculture
resulted from the variety of other issues which arose with the development
of European capitalism and imperialism. As the European powers
established
colonial domination in Asia and Africa, imperialism and war
became major concerns for theorists such as Lenin (1943d [1916]).
The onset of the nrst world war caused the overnight collapse of the
social democratic discussion in the Second International (the European-dominated
social democratic international) on imperialism and war as the
various national parties supported their governments on entry into the war.
This created a new problematic for those socialists who opposed the war.
for them the question became, how to turn the imperialist war into a civil,
i.e., class, war? That discussion became of burning concern after February
1917 when, in Russia, a spontaneous and disorganized revolt brought down
the rotting carcass of czarism. From that time on, the issue of the Russian
revolution came to dominate marxist and socialist thinking.
With the Bolshevik success in November 1917, the question of the
peasantry (let alone agriculture) in the Soviet Union subsided. For die
next five years, it was widely believed that the Russian revolutionary
success
was accidental and, unless buttressed by revolutionary successes
elsewhere
in Europe, particularly in Germany, the Russian revolution could not
be sustained. By 1923, however the possibilities of a German or French
revolution had played themselves out. If the Russian revolution was to
9
It should be noted that the peasantry proved to be a pivotal base of electoral
support in several of the now-longstanding Nordic social democracies (Esping-Anderson
1985).
survive, support would have to come from other places. Enchanted by the
expansion during the war, but to bring down Chiang Kai-shek's brutal
Kuomintang regime left the world breathless.
-
buttressed
by the successes of national and movements and
rebellions
Asia, Latin America,
in Africa anti colthe
after oniasecond
and l world The war.
Chinese revolution followed by similar events in Cuba and Vietnam,
was
10 Mao's two key writings on this topic were "Analysis of the Classes in Chinese
Society" (Mao 1967a [1926]) and "Report of Investigation on the Peasant
Movement in Hunan" (Mao 1967b [1927]). A fine historical account of the tortuous
process by which the peasant revolutionary orientation was developed in China will be
found in Selden (1971). Friedland et al. (1982: Chapter 3) presents a theoretical
discussion of the emergence of revolutionary theory encompassing the peasantry as a
driving force.
11
As an aside, a bizarre incident took place in the United States between 1928
and 1934 (Record 1951 : 60-71). Emphasizing the importance of the national and
colonial questions, Communist theoreticians introduced the notion that Negroes in the
U.S. south constituted a colony and, as a consequence, it was necessary for American
communists to advocate Negro rights to self-determination, s concept seen as leading to
the emergence of a distinctive Negro nation in the south. This formulation emphasized
The Agricultural Social Sciences in the U.S.:
The Abandonment and the Rediscovery of Agriculture
European
complexity should be left to Europeans (but see Mouzelis 1976 ; and
Goodman and Redclift 1988).
By the mid-1970s, American agriculture was beginning to experience
another major economic crisis. The post-war period, while having ups and
downs, was one of almost continuous expansion for much of U.S.
agriculture.
The contrast with the post World War I period was notable. The
when much of the Black population had become urbanized outside of the south.
period up to and including the first world war had constituted a "golden
age" for U.S. agriculture. With the expansion of the U.S. population up to
the war and the demands for food production during war, U.S.
agriculture
the
had expanded continuously after the 1890s. The immediate post-war
period saw the inception of a profound recession as market demand for
agricultural commodities declined while production expansion continued.
By 1922, U.S. agriculture was experiencing a crisis from which it did not
emerge until the second world war. Experience following the second
world war could hardly have been more different Entering an imperial
phase in which U.S. hegemony became global, die agricultural capability of
the United States became an integral part of its mission: food became a
political weapon. Successive events, including die Korean war, the
exportation
of food aid, and the Vietnam war, all that successive
meant
Secretaries
of Agriculture assigned die responsibility
were induce U.S.to
farmers
produce
to The Republican regimes initiated by Dwight
mare.
Eisenhower's presidency accepted this mission with a zest embodied in
Ezra Taft Benson's advice to U.S. farmers to plant "fencerow to fencerow,"
an injunction which helped complete the transition in U.S.
agriculture
to a fully market-oriented economy.
If this
system wonted
fairly well for U.S. farmersgeneral,
in a
process
of economic concentration in U.S. agriculture steadily pushed smaller
producers to the auction block. This was a gradual process, however,
largely unmarked by any special events until the petroleum crisis of 1973,
the Soviet-American grain deal, and the emergence of a global economic
downturn in the early 1970s. By 1975, many American farmers were
experiencing a crisis similar to that which had followed the first world war.
From this point on, U.S. agriculture experienced successive crises with
only occasional minor relief. It was this fact which began to impress itself
on the intellectual agricultural community after 1973.
That intellectual community, found in the social science departments
of the land-grant colleges of agriculture, was composed almost entirely of
agricultural economists and rural sociologists. Hie agricultural economists
were paradigmaticaily unable to confront the post-1973 crisis since their
during
the 1960s and
early ignore 1970s and
developments. those And
sociology
-
and other social science students found themselves involved in the
-
any case, contracting because of the inability of the U.S. to command its
presence in Vietnam and at home.
-
had been the preoccupation of the New Left which prided itself on having
left the Old Left, with its interminable discussions, behind.
Once the student and anti-war movements disappeared, the widespread
search for intellectual explanations began. Thousands of students who had
been activated during the "movement period" returned to the universities,
preparing to enter academic employment Many of these students sought
to understand what had happened to their movement, and this brought
requested for the 1986 meeting in New Delhi, India. At the New Delhi
meetings the Ad Hoc Group was "promoted" to a Working Group and
subsequently to a Research Committee. As a Research Committee, the
Sociology
Agriculture
of group is entitled to sponsor numerous sessions at the
quadrenniel world congresses.
In 1988, taking advantage of the Worid Congress of Rural Sociology
in Bologna, Italy, a series of sessions woe incorporated into its
deliberations
by focusing on the role of the state in agriculture. At this same
Congress, the tendencies toward internationalization which had begun in
Uppsala were brought to full fruition as a one-day pre-meeting, Ancore die
12
Agrarfrage, was held
While these developments unfolded in academic meetings, the parallel
publication process was taking place. The appearance of Change in Rural
America: Causes, Consequences, and Alternatives (Rodefeid et al., 1978),
presaged the initiation of the sociology of agriculture in published form.
Based partially on older writings but incorporating new materials, this text
reflected the rural sociological origins of the emergent new focus on
agriculture,
This volume was followed by the first set of studies that
represented the new approach more explicitly; embodying populist and
neo-marxist analyses, The Rural Sociology of the Advanced Societies:
Critical
Perspectives (Buttel and Newby 1980) was the first clear theoretical
elaboration of the field, yet still reluctant (as manifested by its title) to
depart from the rural sociological connection. Subsequent studies by many
contributors over the next several years saw the final crystallization of the
sociology of agriculture as a respectable literature. In this respect, synoptic
overviews by Newby (1978, 1980, 1982, 1983a, 1983b) and Buttel (1982)
helped to define and shape the emergent field.
As research proliferated, several "problems" and ideas crystallized for
scholars working in this field. Fethaps the first of these was that sociology
as the key label was too limiting for the work being dons; what was
emerging represented a broader approach that, during die next few years,
became designated as the political economy of agriculture.
Most sociologists conducting research on agriculture were acutely
aware of the separation that had occurred historically between rural
sociology
and
agricultural deploring economics. While
separation, this most
sociologists were sensitive to the restricted outlook that agricultural
economics had "achieved" an outlook not only overly focused on the
-
neoclassical paradigm but one which, on the whole, failed to grasp the
social and political totality of modem agriculture. One thing particularly
seen as missing was critical analyses of major areas of inquiry. There
were simply too many topics in agriculture that were not being examined
constructions were being developed but without which the new scholarly
developments were impossible.
12
Again the agrarian question. The title of the pre-congress meeting deliberately
conjoined Italian and German. The agrarfrage designation sought to ground
discussions in the original marxian frame of reference while modernizing both theory
and analysis.
Three other disciplines entered the research area, political
soon
science,
anthropology, geography. sociologists
and While many had been
concerned for decades with issues of rural policy, die policy aspects of
agriculture had largely been surrendered to the agricultural economists
who, on the whole, took a restricted view of policy and, as well, often set
out policy options in terms of their neoclassical perspective. As for
politics,
there had been a notable accumulation of a political science and
political
sociology literature over the decades, usually by political scientists and
sociologists who utilized their agricultural subject matter to pursue
generalized
political issues but who were disinterested in the politics of agriculture
itself (Banfield 1951 ; Selznick 1953 ). With one major exception
(Hadwiger 1982), agricultural politics and policy represented constricted
and limited topics that scholars waking in the field of the sociology of
agriculture recognized as critical to understanding the agricultural
complexes
of advanced capitalist societies.
The anthropological approach often augmented by oral history
-
methods began
-
to be appreciated as microanalytic studies turned to such
issues as the persistence of family-based farming and (he detailed
organization
of labor processes in distinctive agricultural commodities (see, for
example, Chibnik 1987 ). In any case, practitioners of both disciplines, on
the one hand, were drawn into the developing field of the sociology of
agriculture while, on the other hand, sociologists increasingly found
themselves
using approaches rooted in these two disciplines.
The geographical approach was probably most strongly represented in
Europe, particularly among the British. Although there had been an early
neo-marxist and neopopulist study by an American geographer (Vogeler
1981), it was left to the British and Canadians to introduce a systematic set
of geographic concerns about agriculture {Fuller 1984; Hogg art and Buller
1987; Marsden et al. 1986 , 1987).
Yet another intellectual strand close to the developing scholarly
came
persistence
versus disappearance of family farming (or, as it is sometimes
referred to, the "family labor farm," i.e., the agricultural production unit
which is of sufficient economic strength to provide an economic base to a
family and whose labor is provided, in the majority, by family members).
Two distinctive approaches have emerged as this literature has
crystallized.
The first
emphasizes the
persistence, adaptibility, flexibility and of
smaller units; the second sees the continuing demise of such units and their
conversion into units in which a growing share of family income is derived
from off-farm sources. To a considerable degree the differences in
approach have developed from the methodology used by scholars in
investigating
this phenomenon. Microanalytic approaches, particularly those of
anthropology and oral history, typically emphasize the persistence theme
(see, for example, the papers in Chibnik 1987 and in Gladwin and Truman
1989 ; see also Salamon and Klein 1979, Salamon and O'Reilly 1979,
Salamon 1980) whereas macroanalyses tend to emphasize demise. Here
the problem is to reconcile what the perspective of the observer permits,
on the one hand, and that which it obfuscates, on the other. The literature
being produced on this topic not only includes debates between the two
approaches, but an attempt on the part of some of those emphasizing the
persistence theme to develop a better understanding of the factors
contributing
to differentiation and demise.
An essential element for the development of truly cross-national
comparative analysis requires that national-level analyses use common
categories of analysis and be knowledgeable about the character of
agricultural
systems in nations other than those in which scholarly expertise
exists. This part of the process is only just beginning, and an essential
elementin its evolution is to bring together scholars with in-depth knowledge
of their own national agricultural systems in contexts in which they can
begin to explore the commonalities and variations more explicitly. This
was the notion that underlay the approach to the agenda of the miniconference
from which the papers in this volume were drawn.
Although an explicitly cross-national comparative approach has not yet
emerged in the new political economy of agriculture, the emphasis on
global
issues is cme about which most scholars have become acutely sensitive.
This has become particularly manifest in several different areas.
First, there has been a growing recognition that the so-called
agricultural
is endemic national
"crisis" of
structural and to every economy
advanced capitalism and exhibits continuity in a series of overproduction
"crises" over more than a century. A tetter understanding of the ubiquity
of "crisis," the way it has manifested itself differentially within national
social formations, and the transnational market and nonmarket forces that
are contributing to it, represents one set of topics that have begun to be
13
We thus recognize that the traditional usage of "new international division of
labor" (e.g., Fiobel 1980) has implied a narrow focus on the relocation of
manufacturing activity from high- to tow-wage zones (Gordon 1988). In fact, the "new
internationalization" has been as or more profound in areas of credit and money capital
(Green 1987; Jenkins 1987) labor (Sassen 1988) and agriculture (Sanderson 198S).
, ,
and raisins, must be understood in a global context For example, the
entry of Greece into the European Economic Community had profound
effects cm the production of American raisins and, in turn, on the
economics
of the U.S. wine industry. Although research requires a global
approach, difficulties are often encountered because of the paucity of
research "at the base"; that is, there is, all too frequently, inadequate
research material concerning what is happening at the national level for
these commodities which now operate so profoundly in global markets.
Nevertheless, some research has begun to undertake the complex task of
understanding the global, international, and regional developments in the
production and distribution of food and fiber, the forces that are
contributing
to the elaboration of global systems, and the consequences at national
levels of such developments.
Yet another aspect of the global developments in agricultural political
economy involves a more explicit formulation: the articulation between the
agricultural production and distribution systems of advanced capitalism and
the Third World.
In marxian (and other) intellectual traditions, the relations between the
First and Third Worlds were encompassed in formulations involving
"imperialism," "colonialism," "neocolonialism," "unequal exchange,"
"surplus extraction," and the distinction between "central and peripheral
accumulation," and so on (see, for example, Brewer 1981 ; Corbridge
1986 ). These formulations have not lost their salience but they describe
generalized relationships and, arguably, give too much stress to idealized
core-periphery differences and tend to ignore heterogeneity within both
core and periphery. In considering the specificities of agriculture, the
intention has been to elucidate more recent exploitative relationships,
relationships
distinctive to agriculture, between First and Third World nations
arid, particularly, to explore the character of what might be called
transnational
agriculture.
Classical colonialism and imperialism referred to direct political and
economic exploitation in a global division of labor in which raw materials
were transferred from the Third to the First World at cheap prices. Recent
complexity
of these distribution systems is such that, in 1988, the discovery of
two grape berries laced with cyanide collapsed the entire Chilean
distribution
network, costing an estimated $260 million through the destruction of
over 8% of Chile's annual production of grapes in the distributional
pipeline
(The Packer, July 22, 1989: 1A). Thus, the articulation between the
food and fiber production and distribution systems of First and Third
Worlds constitutes a topic that should be encompassed within the new
political
economy of captitalist agriculture.
organizations,
special-purpose agricultural organizations, or individual agricultural
farm firms. Agricultural economists have looked at some of the economic
ramifications of organizations such as marketing-order organizations. This
literature, however, is devoid of any material that provides an
understanding
of how such organizations function, i.e., the political economy of
agricultural
organization. Thus, for this type of organization at least, we know
more about the consequences of their behavior thanks to the work of the
-
how they do it. Although this would seem to be an obvious research topic
for sociologists, that has not been the case.
Another aspect of this topic concerns the interrelationship of
organization
and economic concentration. Here the approach taken by one branch
of economics, neoclassical industrial organization, could be usefully applied
to understanding the new political economy of capitalist agriculture. This
requires the utilization of a commodity systems approach (Friedland et al.
1978; Friedland 1984) and the asking of such questions as: where, in the
chain of production and distribution of particular commodities, does
concentration
occur? Does it occur at the level of growers, grower
cooperatives,
marketing orders, processors, bulk purchasers of the commodity as a
food input, etc.? Further, how shall we account for the variable
organizational
develop differing
structures that in provide locations but which
identical
identical
-
or near topic explored by Michael
-
outcomes, a Gertler in
this volume. political
The organizations
economy of
-
their internal
processes, organizational interrelationships, the relationship of organization
to the state represents
-
a topic which has just begun to crystallize in the
14
new political economy of agriculture.
Several additional topics, still very much in the process of formation
and not yet very well developed at least in the English-speaking segment
-
14
Use innovations in integrating class analysis and organizational sociology by
Clegg (1989) and others make this task immeasurably easier, however.
begs for building on the base of localized studies and one which, we
believe, will develop more explicitly in the coming period (following, for
example, Sassen's [1988] path-breaking work on the internationalization of
labor and capital).
One topic that has not been explored in a very systematic fashion,
somewhat surprisingly since it concerns a key idea in marxism, is that of
working class organization and struggle. While there are many studies of
the development of working class organization at the national level, the
comparative analysis of the agricultural working class has been almost
nonexistent. In this respect, the national orientation of marxists is quite
profound, if somewhat embarrassing.
Yet another issue has to do with what might be referred to as policy
or "applied" activity. "Policy" formulation has been historically established
as the domain of the agricultural economists and, in most cases, issues
have been framed as to how to confront problems such as how to reduce
the national (or, in the case of Europe, die European Community) burden
of agricultural subsidies or how to grapple with the relationship between
national overproduction and the world market for agricultural commodities.
While rural sociologists have long been concerned about "application" and
"applied work," a somewhat different orientation is emerging within the
new political economy of apiculture. In the older rural sociological
tradition,
"application" referred to the work that social science extension did on
such topics as community development, community reorganization, or
community
resuscitation.
The of
new political economy agriculture, however, has been bereft of
policy discussions, at least until recently. In part this is a function of the
newness of these debates; in part this is also a reflection of the inability of
mandsi scholars to break with the modern formulations of traditionalist
paradigms -
of social democracy (with its welfare state and regulatory
approaches to agriculture), or Leninism (with its notion of collective
farms), or of cooperative forms (particularly of the Israeli models) and to
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15
This section was written by Frederick H. Buttel.
the important tendencies that the more recent literature in the political
economy of agriculture and many of the papers in this volume have
followed.
As thepolitical economy of agriculture began to take shape in the late
1970s, unsurprisingly, it reflected the nature of the adjacent literatures from
which it borrowed (e.g., peasant studies, development theory) and, as well,
the nature of western neo-marxism of the time. The implications of this
heritage woe three-fold. First, there was a stress on generalizing or
deductive theories 16 of agrarian transition (for example, caricatures of
Lenin's theory of differentiation of the peasantry). Second, the political
economy of agriculture scholarship in its early years focused heavily
around the "agrarian question," relatively narrowly construed as debates on
the transformation vs. persistence of the "family farm" and on the political
economy of agriculture as a production sector, i.e., in relative isolation
from other sectors. 17 Finally, this early scholarship often had a
preoccupation
with depicting how capitalism in agriculture was distinct from, and
incompletely penetrated by, or insulated from modem industrial capitalism.18
16
See Sayer (1987) for a provocative account of how western marxism,
especially the varieties of neo-marxism that predominated in the 1970s, tended to
rigidity marxist categories, to strive for an illusory generalizeability, to ignore the
humanist and dialectical underpinnings of Marx' thought, aad to stress positivist
methodologies.
17
Neo-marxist scholarship of the time was largely focused on debates between
"Chayanovian msrxistt" (as Lehmaen [1986] portrays the wort of Fricdmann [1980]
aad Mann sad Dickinson [1978]) versus those working from truncated versions of
Lenin's and Kautsky's theories (e.g., de Janvry 1980).
The papers in this volume were prepared, with two exceptions, for a
miniconference held in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary meeting of
the Rural Sociological Society. The miniconference on the Political
Economy
of Agriculture, held in Madison, Wisconsin, 12-15 August 1987,
brought together the authors of the papers contained hare and others in a
series of sessions that provided an opportunity for continuous exchange on
a number of emergent issues.
production
and reproduction that should be discussed in most of the papers hut,
-
Conclusion
Finally, it should be noted that the papers in this volume only begin
the examination of the new political economy of capitalist agriculture.
Before a more comprehensive analysis becomes possible, much preliminary
research is required. Several topics not covered by these papers have been
mentioned earlier in this chapter. As the network of scholars interested in
and conducting research on the political economy of capitalist agriculture
grows, we can expect that some of these topics will begin to be elucidated.
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