Modes of production

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Feudalism in World History

A bibliographic checklist by Haines Brown, 1993. Because the perspective is not Eurocentric empiricist, much material concerning what are presumed to be feudal institutions in Europe is here omitted.

Wittfogel and the Asiatic Mode of Production

By Mark Jones, 16 April 1996. Wittfogel, who began life as a revolutionary Marxist, later popularised the notion of the ‘Asiatic Mode of Production’ (AMP) and nailed Marx to it. Yet the idea was more Wittfogel's than Marx's.

Dominant and other modes of production

A discussion from the Marxism list, December 2006. Discussion of how to reconcile notion of capitalist mode of production with the existence of various non-capitalist forms of production.