The discontinuity of working time in agriculture and the implications for the stability of the capitalist enterprise – an analysis of Marx’s vision
Abstract
Some Brazilian authors that utilize a Marxist approach, have insisted on the
unfeasibility of private capitalist production. The premises of this thesis are: 1) the existent
difference into the agriculture process of production between the labor time and the production
time and 2) the hypothetical lower rate of profit of capitalist agriculture. This article
tries to show that these premises are false once the process of production was changed so
much by the modem agriculture that it has become very similar to the industry.
JEL Classification: B51; Q10.
Keywords: Marxian economy agriculture structural change history of economic thought