Amazonian Capital Flashcards
What is the history of Amazonian exploitation?
Portugese colonization, 20th century rubber boom, extractivism during 1960 military dictatorship
What is the most well known Amazon expansion?
1870-1910 rubber boom pre-ceding Malayasias dominance of world market.
What are two concepts for understanding the region?
Mark Concept of Primitive Accumulation
Harvey’s Concept of Accumulation by Dispossesion
What does CMP assume?
Production of surplus value, class of wage-laborer…
Marx Concept of Primitive Accumulation
Historical process of divorcing producer means of production
What does capital production require?
Previous wealth accumulation and wage laborer creation from freeholders
What does capitals stagnation with underconsumption imply?
Force, fraud, and oppression
What does Capital Accumulation require?
Imperialism, whwere empty land or new raw material sources are not present require some way to produce them
What did capital expansion require?
Workers and land occupied previously by indigenous people requiring enforced private property rights by force and violence
What were the two waves of economic growth for rubber?
19th century until 2010, and 1942-45, with migrant influ
What promoted the second rubber tapping wave?
US finances as Malaysia was occupied by Japan, the major rubber supplier during WW2.
What did the 60’s dictatorship put in place?
Operation Amazonia prompted by the Development Authority for the Amazon
What was the idea of Operation Amazonia?
Turning national/international capitalists intow landowners for agricultural production
Agrarian Reform
Process of redistributing land and implementing policies supporting sustainable rural development
What promoted capital expansion in 60’s?
Transamazonian Highway and BR-163
