GEOG 1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Productive Forces, Common Land
24 Feb 2018
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Productive forces: labour, technology, raw materials, geographical space. Relationships: relations to nature/environment, relations among ourselves. Group, small amount of people, 1% control society"s resources. The rest of us have to go to work nearly every day. Class is objective, but what you think about it is not. Common land: peasants were allowed to graze their animals for free, turned into private land owned by capitalists. Had access to land of the landowners, had to work for free in exchange for living on the land. Capitalists tenants: rich people who lease the land from landowners. David harvey: it is wrong to believe that all this dispossession that it is a thing of the past; still occuring. People are currently losing their land by force. No political revolution fmp (feudal mode of production) Still happening in many parts of the world. Use wage labourers in a coercive way, don"t have many rights. Traditionally a place known for family farmers.
