Brenner debate

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The Brenner debate is a major historiographical controversy in Marxist economic history over the origins and development of capitalism, sparked by Robert Brenner’s influential work on agrarian class structures in early modern Europe.

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instanceOf Marxist historical controversy
debate in economic history
historiographical debate
contrastsWith commercialization model of the rise of capitalism
demographic models of economic development
world-systems theory explanations of capitalism
emphasizes primacy of social-property relations
role of class conflict in historical change
field European social history
Marxist economic history
agrarian history
focusesOn English path to capitalism
agrarian class structure
class struggle in the countryside
continental European agrarian structures
demographic explanations of economic change
enclosure in England
market-centered explanations of capitalism
peasant–landlord relations
regional differentiation within Europe
relations of production in agriculture
serfdom and its decline
geographicFocus Central Europe
Eastern Europe
England
France
Western Europe
hasAspect comparative regional analysis
interpretation of English enclosures
links between political and economic power
methodological individualism vs structural analysis
periodization of feudalism and capitalism
relationship between town and countryside
role of markets vs class relations
role of peasant agency
transition debates within Marxism
hasKeyFigure Alex Callinicos
Arnost Klima
Benno Teschke
Brennan Moore
Charles Post
Chris Wickham
Colin Mooers
Ellen Meiksins Wood
Erik Olin Wright
G. E. M. de Ste. Croix
George Comninel
Giovanni Arrighi
Guy Bois
Henry Heller
Immanuel Wallerstein
Jairus Banaji
John Hatcher
Maurice Dobb
Michael Postan
Paul M. Sweezy
linked to: Paul Sweezy

Paul Sweezy
Perry Anderson
Robert Albritton
Robert Brenner
Robert Brenner school
Rodney Hilton
T. H. Aston
hasKeyWork Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
Past and Present articles on agrarian class structure
The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
hasPublicationForm edited volumes
journal articles
monographs
influenced Marxist theories of the state
Political Marxism
comparative studies of European feudalism
debates on uneven and combined development
historiography of early modern Europe
social-property relations approach
studies of English agrarian capitalism
studies of agrarian transitions in the Global South
theory of capitalist social relations
influencedBy Robert Brenner
language English
mainTopic development of capitalism
origins of capitalism
transition from feudalism to capitalism
originatedIn 1970s
journal Past and Present
relatedTo Dobb–Sweezy debate
agrarian capitalism
capitalist social relations
class struggle in rural society
enclosure movement
feudalism
neo-Smithian Marxism
serfdom
transition debate in Marxism
world-systems theory
timePeriodDiscussed early modern Europe
late medieval Europe

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