ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315027142/ebdd46b2-d11d-4c3e-ac1c-5b1f57a3bfba/content/logo_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>The history of the expansion of capitalism is characterized, among other factors, by the peasants’ and craftsmen’s departure from their traditional system of production and from their economic equilibrium in order to sell their labour. The process by which colonial exploitation is established on the basis of subsistence agriculture is not, however, a question of a simple movement of population from a traditional living area to a new area opened up to migration. Any analysis made only in terms of the passage from one zone to another, the propulsion away from the zone of departure, and the attraction to the zone of arrival would not give a complete picture of the phenomenon.
