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[BEST OF] The Fundamentals of Marxism: Historical Materialism, Dialectics, & Political Economy

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The Concept of Primitive Accumulation Within Marxism

i think primitive accumulation is one of those terms that you might hear come up in discussions of marxism, especially on the more theoretical or academic end of things. And i think this is actualya, really concrete example of d mystification that we can kind of look at. So marks in his critique of sort of adam smith's political economy, he sort of mockingly paints sort of the capitalist explanation from where capitalism comes from. It's going to try to demystify this, because this story isn't the truth.

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