| Titre | Propriété foncière et mode de production capitaliste | |
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| Auteur | Pierre Coulomb | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 51, 1973 | |
| Page | 27-66 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Land-Ownership and the Capitalistic Mode of Production.
The social use of land in developed capitalistic societies is one of today's burning issues. The land problem in societies dominated by the capitalistic mode of production is that of the private appropriation of land; what is the status of land in a capitalistic economy? What is that of the landowner? In order to define the conceptual framework in which these questions will be treated, this article discusses the nature of the ground rent and the social forms that permit its extension as they were perceived by the British and later by the Land Economics School in America. Then there comes an analysis of the problems raised by the ground rent theory as elaborated by Marx. The second section of this paper is devoted to the rise of the small landowners who replaced the dwindling landowning class. Due to the fact that the land, rather than being concentrated, was parcelled out to those who used it directly, Marx's model proves to be inadequate. After developing the meaning of the term "immobilized capital," the article demonstrates how private ownership of land inhibits the extension of capitalistic methods to the agricultural sector. It then shows how it also checks the absorption and direct organization of urban expansion (housing production) by the capitalistic mode of production. The rapid development of real-estate promotion is, however, profoundly changing the role of capital in housing production. In conclusion, one reads an explanation of the ways in which the land- ownership system articulates with the capitalistic mode of production, of conditions under which the social use of land is subordinate to the mode of production, and some comment on the place of land policy in the more general economic policy in dominantly capitalistic societies. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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