Bifacetic character of labour, role of the state and accumulation processes. The case of Colonia Jaime, Argentina.

Abstract

The recognition of the persistence and diversity of forms of communalism and its ability to adapt to the capitalist context is key to problematize the Marxist postulate according to which the development of the productive forces would dissolve the Community natural base. Based on the study of Colonia Jaime, a communal system will be addressed as a space where the articulation of capitalist and non-capitalist forms, the bifacetical condition of work and the construction of collaborative networks with the State, appear as conditions of possibility to generate processes of accumulation. How the Colonia Jaime was able to design, maintain and generate these development mechanisms under a modernizing context will be the objective of this work.