Abstract

ACOSTA-REVELES, Irma-Lorena. The Scientific-Technological Factor in the Consolidation of Regional Agrarian Capitalism. Cuad. Desarro. Rural [online]. 2013, vol.10, n.71, pp.15-35. ISSN 0122-1450.

This paper shows the importance of technologies of scientific origin in the evolution of Latin American agrarian capitalism during the past three decades. From the perspective of dialectic materialism as a method and epistemological positioning the following is concluded: the package of the green revolution left the process of agrarian salary distribution unresolved. On the contrary, new technologies aiming at productivity in the global market do allow a) to partially detach agriculture from the constraint of its natural rhythms, b) to substantially increase production capability in work and in the soil, c) to invigorate surpluses under the structure of agribusinesses, d) to free workers from rural economy and the food industry itself, and e) to guarantee salary relations as the predominant way of generating value.

Keywords : Productive forces; agriculture; paid work; Latin America; Capitalism; agricultural-economic aspects; agricultural wages; Latin America.

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