Asiatic mode of production

Even Karl Marx characterised the "Asiatic mode of production" as unchanging.

The Asiatic Mode of Production in China.

Karl Marx even used this translation as a reference for his Asiatic Modes of Production.

The Asiatic mode of production: sources, development and critique in the writings of Karl Marx.

The introduction of the Asiatic mode of production in Formen shows well that Marx remained flexible throughout his work when he came across new information.

In the case of the Asiatic mode of production the source of the information which led him to introduce this new type of society is well documented.

The Asiatic mode of production is characterized by the importance of the State and the place of the State in the conceptualization of property.

The theory of the Asiatic mode of production, (AMP) was devised by Karl Marx around the early 1850s.

The Asiatic mode of production is a notion that has been the subject of much deliberation on the part of Marxist and non-Marxist commentators alike.

Some other topics, such as the discussion of the Asiatic mode of production and the notion of ideology, will also be left to other parts of the book.

Fritjof Tichelman, The Social Evolution of Indonesia: The Asiatic Mode of Production and its Legacy.

Another important aspect of Marx's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states.

O'Leary studied at Keble College, Oxford and the London School of Economics, where he gained his PhD on the Asiatic mode of production.

Lawrence Krader, The Asiatic Mode of Production; Sources, Development and Critique in the Writings of Karl Marx.

Karl Marx, himself of Jewish origin, characterized the Asiatic mode of production as unchanging, because of the economic narrowness of village economies and the State's role in production.

The Asiatic mode of production is said to be the initial form of class society, where a small group extracts social surplus through violence aimed at settled or unsettled band communities within a domain.

The premise, according to Marx, is that there existed some forms of state, which were ruled by tribute-collecting despots based on the system of production-property relations, described as "Asiatic mode of production."

In Formen Marx is also considering under what circumstances this conflict is made inoperative, hence his consideration of the Asiatic mode of production and the Germanic mode of production.

However, this analysis, often identified with Karl Wittfogel's theories on the Asiatic mode of production, is hotly contested, and few archaeologists or historians today accept it as a sufficient explanation for the first cities.

This theory of the Asiatic mode of production is complicated and subtle; it is hardly elaborated in Formen but it is fascinating in that it foreshadows a central concept in Capital.

The theory of Engels developed from study of Ancient Society by Lewis H. Morgan and the sketches of this work by Karl Marx on the Asiatic mode of production.

Some Social Democrats analysed Russia as partly an Asiatic mode of production, a position denounced by Lenin, who insisted on the fully capitalist character of the Russian economy and hence its ripeness for socialist agitation.

According to Geertz, one of the most important of state institutions in Bali is the irrigation society (subak) given the theoretical emphasis placed upon irrigation in the materialist models of the "Asiatic mode of production."

Further, it has been argued that there is no 'Asiatic mode of production', so that the distinctive history of the Orient has to be explained in terms of influences other than a specific mode of production; for instance, by the character and development of political or religious institutions.