We believe that Lefebvre’s engagement with issues of landed property and rent from a Marxist perspective, including the distinction between differential rent and absolute rent and then ground rent as an expression of capitalism continues to have important insights today. He interrogates the notion of ground rent as a socially determined categorya social relation of productionarising from a historically conditioned process, via primitive accumulation. This confers, in the form of landownership, the ability to appropriate from objects of nature (land, water, and minerals) the demand of a payment for their use, even in the form of the least fertile land (through absolute ground rent). He analyses these issues through a theory of uneven development, which remains especially important in Latin America today. This was a region that Lefebvre visited and presented his work in, especially at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico and at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Venezuela. It is our aim to produce a key text that will provide insights on wider debates about issues of rural and land questions in Henri Lefebvre’s work relevant to contemporary historical sociology, political economy, geographical, and Marxist approaches to ground rent, uneven development, land reform and agrarian reform.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 14:44:31 +0000
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