Marx and education [Book Review]

Abstract

Jean Anyon indeed discusses a contemporary issue related to Marx’s notion of ‘primitive accumulation’ and its development by a secondary source, the Marxist geographer David Harvey. She relates this to the notion of ‘accumulation by dispossession’, which in my view has wider implications than she suggests. What Marx calls ‘primitive accumulation’ still goes on in Latin America and Africa, for instance. Eduardo Galeano intimates that the dispossession of the indigenous in the Amazon region of Brazil is a continuation of the kind of dispossession of the indigenous by the Conquistadors seen much earlier in history. All this is in addition to their extermination and entombment in the mines of Protosi‘, in modern-day Bolivia, and elsewhere, as mentioned by Marx in Capital Volume III.