GEOG 130 Lecture Notes - Constant Capital, Economic Rent, Wage Labour
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India"s & late victorian holocausts (davis) marx production of hunger = current contradictions (production of hunger) + weather patterns (el nino); during drought, still produced & ship to. Europe for queen victoria"s feast = a perfect storm of climate system + Production of farming crops for market cash crops. Extracting infrastructure for raw materials, not food crops. Sale of crops = decline in traditional system of grain reserves (none. Producers dependent on income to buy food. Drought wiped out crops no job/income cannot buy food. Integrated market = drought in one place = drought worldwide & affects saved) price. Invisible hand leads to speculative hoarding (smith does not work) Alienation = privatization of nature exchange value. Lord lytton: population grows > food raised. Argued that it would create redundant population (class, race, Lord lytton: high prices of grain = increase imports, drop in consumption.
