Abstract
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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1095-1105 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Progress in Human Geography |
Volume | 46 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2022 |
Keywords
- Rent
- extraction
- financialization
- resources
- state
- value
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development