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French Absolutism and Agricultural Capitalism: A Comment on Henry Heller’s Essays

Stephen Miller

Historical Materialism 20 (4):141-161 (2012)

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How Capitalist Were the ‘Bourgeois Revolutions’?Charles Post - 2019 - Historical Materialism 27 (3):157-190.details The canonical version of the ‘bourgeois revolutions’ has been under attack from both pro-capitalist ‘Revisionist’ historians and ‘Political Marxists’. Neil Davidson’s book How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? provides a thorough review of the intellectual history of the notion of the bourgeois revolution and attempts to rescue the concept from varied criticism. Despite distancing himself from problematic formulations of the bourgeois revolution inherited from Second-International Marxism, Davidson’s own framework reproduces many of the historical and conceptual problems of this tradition. Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
The Eighteenth Brumaire in historical context: reconsidering class and state in France and Syria.Jonathan Viger - 2019 - Theory and Society 48 (4):611-638.details This article seeks to reinterpret the process of state and class formation in “peripheral” societies—notably Syria—through a contextualized reading of Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire influenced by the approach of Political Marxism (PM). In light of PM’s claim that capitalism did not emerge in France until the late nineteenth century, it draws a picture of post-revolutionary French society in which the legacy of the precapitalist Absolutist state still determined the nature of ruling class reproduction and class struggle, centered on the state apparatus (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Ralph Kingston on the Bourgeoisie and Bureaucracy in France, 1789–1848.Stephen Miller - 2015 - Historical Materialism 23 (3):240-252.details Ralph Kingston, inBureaucrats and Bourgeois Society, argues that government employees constituted the core of the French bourgeoisie in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book lends support to the Marxist interpretation of the Revolution, not as a breakthrough of a capitalist bourgeoisie, but as a conflict originating in a social structure whose economic surplus was appropriated politically. This review posits that the peasants’ subsistence strategies constrained the economic evolution of the country and led well-to-do families to invest in shares of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Stephen Miller on Capitalism in the Old Regime: A Response.Henry Heller - 2013 - Historical Materialism 21 (3):109-116.details Stephen Miller attempts to confute the idea that capitalist accumulation characterised the agriculture of the Île-de-France prior to the Revolution. Instead he tries to assimilate the agriculture of the north into theAnnalesmodel of neo-Malthusian agricultural cycles and Chayanovian subsistence economy which is supposedly characteristic of the Midi. I argue instead that the notion of a northern capitalist agriculture is rooted not only in the extensive modern research of Moriceau but in the political-economic writings of Turgot and Marx which have been (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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