Accumulating Class

From The SpiritWiki

The Accumulating Class is the Economic Class that accumulates abstracted labour from the Working Class through the various Mechanisms of Accumulation made available by a particular Regime of Accumulation.[1]

Regime of Accumulation

Regime of Accumulation > Mode of Accumulation, Relations of Accumulation

Mode of Exploitation > Mechanisms of Accumulation, Mechanisms of Compliance, Mechanisms of Force, Mechanisms of Reproduction, Mechanisms of Surveillance

Relations of Accumulation > Accumulating Class, Slave Class

Syncretic Terms

Accumulating Class > Bourgeoisie, The Family

Related LP Terms

Accumulating Class > Regime of Accumulation, Symbol Factory

Non-LP Related Terms

Accumulating Class >

Notes

The Video Money Moksha lays out the basic dynamics of accumulation, and some of the toxic consequences of the Regime of Accumulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir0R7yAFiO8

Ipsita Chaterjee[2] uses the term accumulating class in the context of the class's colonization of space and place.

Related LP Courses

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Footnotes

  1. Rocket Scientists’ Guide to Money and the Economy: Accumulation and Debt. St Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press., 2016 https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Scientists-Guide-Economy-Guides-ebook/dp/B00CH1FP5U/
  2. Chatterjee, Ipsita. Displacement, Revolution, and the New Urban Condition. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2014