O processo de expansão do capitalismo na agricultura e a importância da renda fundiária: uma perspectiva marxista

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the dynamics of capitalist expansion in agriculture and the importance of ground rent (or land rent) as a result of this dynamic expansion. Accordingly, the ground rent is a part of the added value deducted from the capital gain full and the total price obtained by the lessee capitalist, i.e. set in the annual transfer of certain part of the tenant capitalist profit for the landowner . Marx explains that the land revenue comes from the fact that the various agricultural activities can have on the production of pricing basis (cost plus average profit production) different, whether as a result of the conditions of used land (natural fertility or its location geographic relative to the market), either as a result of more productive capital investment in the same field. The main conclusion is that the rent of land is the result of direct application of capital in the particular conditions of agriculture - including mining,for example - and that is with the productive use of a means of special production - the land - which does not have value, it is not the product of human labor, but which has value in use.