Agricultural commercialization and capitalist development in Brazil
Abstract
This paper presents an alternative view of agricultural commercialization in the
capitalist development process in Brazil, in contrast with the functionalist approach derived
from neoclassical economic theory. Agricultural commercialization is a capital circulation
activity whose form depends on the social organization of agricultural production and the
development of capital concentration, both determined by the modernization process of
the Brazilian economy. The conclusion remark upon the tendency toward subordination of
circulation activities, the growing importance of different types of capital (agrarian, commercial,
agroindustrial and “entrepreneurial cooperatives”) and of the financial appreciation
of capital used in agricultural production and circulation.
JEL Classification: Q13.
Keywords: Agriculture agricultural market marxism