Prabhat Patnaik

The Concept of Primitive Accumulation of Capital

Marxist, XXXIII, 4, October-December 2017

Prabhat Patnaik

The Concept of Primitive Accumulation of Capital

Having analyzed the anatomy of the capitalist mode of production, Marx had turned his attention towards the end of Capital Volume I to the question of how this mode of production had at all come into being. And here he had introduced his concept of ‘primitive accumulation of capital’.