Resource geography III: Rentier natures and the renewal of class struggle

Resource geography III: Rentier natures and the renewal of class struggle

There is renewed attention to the importance of rent to understanding capitalist resource geographies. In this report, I ground these discussions in Marx’s theory of “ground rent” and specifically the role of the landlord class as owners of natural forces demanding a “share” of the social surplus (a...

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Published in:Progress in human geography Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 1095 - 1105
Main Author: Huber, Matthew T
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01-08-2022
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:
Class struggle
Geography
Human geography
Landowners
Lessors
Literature reviews
Marxism
Marxist analysis
Owners
Renewal
resources
state
extraction
value
financialization
Rent
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Summary:There is renewed attention to the importance of rent to understanding capitalist resource geographies. In this report, I ground these discussions in Marx’s theory of “ground rent” and specifically the role of the landlord class as owners of natural forces demanding a “share” of the social surplus (as distinct from the capitalist and working classes). I review emergent literature about three key kinds of rentiers—private landowners, landlord states, and capitalist resource rentiers. I suggest the category of capitalist resource rentier confounds a Marxist class analysis centered on capitalists as the owners of the means of production.
ISSN:0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI:10.1177/03091325221074006