Asiatic Mode of Production : Considerations on Ancient Egypt

This chapter will inquire into the validity of Marx and Engels’s elaborations on the Asiatic mode of production – with their contradictions and the modifications they went through over time – in connection with the historical process of an ancient state. It will also analyse in part how these elabor...

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Autor principal: Zingarelli, Andrea Paula
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Publicado: Brill 2015
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Historia
Ciencias Sociales
production
Egyptian history
pharaonic Egypt
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1545702023-06-22T20:10:38Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/154570 https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004263703/B9789004263703_003.xml isbn:978-90-04-26370-3 Asiatic Mode of Production : Considerations on Ancient Egypt Zingarelli, Andrea Paula 2015 2023-06-22T17:10:23Z Brill en Historia Ciencias Sociales production Egyptian history pharaonic Egypt This chapter will inquire into the validity of Marx and Engels’s elaborations on the Asiatic mode of production – with their contradictions and the modifications they went through over time – in connection with the historical process of an ancient state. It will also analyse in part how these elaborations were later received and transformed by the more relevant Marxist historiography. More precisely, our aim is to analyse the Asiatic mode of production from the particular perspective of the dominant relations of production in pharaonic Egypt. The goal of our inquiry does not merely imply a recourse to the ‘facts’ of Egyptian history in the empirical sense so strongly criticised by Hindess and Hirst, but a recourse to an abstraction of the historical process, which is not the same as the abstraction of an ideal elaboration devoid of historical meaning. We will thus focus on a certain social formation and on the economic, social, political and ideological relations that appear historically in consonance with the dominant Asiatic mode of production, and with other relations typical of other modes of production. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación Libro Capitulo de libro http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf 27-76
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Ciencias Sociales
production
Egyptian history
pharaonic Egypt
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Ciencias Sociales
production
Egyptian history
pharaonic Egypt
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Asiatic Mode of Production : Considerations on Ancient Egypt
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Ciencias Sociales
production
Egyptian history
pharaonic Egypt
description This chapter will inquire into the validity of Marx and Engels’s elaborations on the Asiatic mode of production – with their contradictions and the modifications they went through over time – in connection with the historical process of an ancient state. It will also analyse in part how these elaborations were later received and transformed by the more relevant Marxist historiography. More precisely, our aim is to analyse the Asiatic mode of production from the particular perspective of the dominant relations of production in pharaonic Egypt. The goal of our inquiry does not merely imply a recourse to the ‘facts’ of Egyptian history in the empirical sense so strongly criticised by Hindess and Hirst, but a recourse to an abstraction of the historical process, which is not the same as the abstraction of an ideal elaboration devoid of historical meaning. We will thus focus on a certain social formation and on the economic, social, political and ideological relations that appear historically in consonance with the dominant Asiatic mode of production, and with other relations typical of other modes of production.
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