primitive accumulation

noun

The process whereby small proprietors and other groups are transformed, usually violently, into propertyless wage-laborers.

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Meanings

nounprimitive accumulation (usually uncountable, plural primitive accumulations)

plural primitive accumulations

  1. MarxismuncountableusuallyThe process whereby small proprietors and other groups are transformed, usually violently, into propertyless wage-laborers.
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