“PRIMITIVE accumulation” means the acquisition of capital (physical or financial) by expropriation rather than through exploitation. Exploitation — paying workers less than the value they create (the ...

How is labour to be conceptualised in the present context? On the one hand, there are the claims of the new economy that old forms of labour are being transformed and reformed; on the other, there is ...

The articles collected in this second issue of The Commoner deal with some aspects of the multi faced reality of “enclosures”. The reality of enclosures, in the Marxist tradition also referred to as ...

The dictatorship of corruption and mediocrity that I discussed at length in the lecture that I delivered at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs on Saturday, July 13, 2013 and that was ...

Enrique S. Rivera is a historian, journalist, and documentary film producer. He teaches at UCLA, and his recent book, The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery ...