Keywords
Feudalism
Slavery
Wage labor
World-systems analysis
How to Cite
Abstract
Marxist theory has by now largely abandoned the (seriously flawed) notion of the “mode of production”, but doing so has only encouraged a trend to abandon much of what was radical about it and naturalize capitalist categories. This article argues a better conceived notion of a mode of production – one that recognizes the primacy of human production, and hence a more sophisticated notion of materialism – might still have something to show us: notably, that capitalism, or at least industrial capitalism, has far more in common with, and is historically more closely linked with, chattel slavery than most of us had ever imagined.
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