Capitalist and formally pre-capitalist modes combine in structured dominance.

Evidence

What Marx was describing, then, was something radically different from Frank’s interpretation: namely, an articulation between two modes of production, the one “capitalist” in the true sense, the other only “formally” so: the two combined through an articulating principle, mechanism, or set of relations, because, as Marx observed, “its beneficiaries participate in a world market in which the dominant productive sectors are already capitalist.” That is, the object of inquiry must be treated as a complex articulated structure which is, itself, “structured in dominance.” Slave plantation owners thus participated in a general movement of the world capitalist system: but on the basis of an internal mode of production—slavery in its modern, plantation form—not itself “capitalist” in character. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 609

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines ‘articulation between modes of production’ structured in dominance — the concept doing the heavy lifting in Hall’s critique of Frank.
• XREF: Plausibly connects to Althusser and Poulantzas’s structural Marxism, and to Hall’s broader project on race and social formations later in the volume.

Related

• Society operates as a complex formation structured in dominance with relative institutional autonomy (similarity 0.85)
• Social formations are complex unities structured in dominance, not determined by a single cause (similarity 0.83)
• Marx held that capitalism both preserves and absorbs pre-capitalist modes of production. (similarity 0.82)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance (similarity 0.82)
• Marx held plantation slavery only formally capitalist because it lacked free wage labor (similarity 0.82)
• Racism is not necessary to the functioning of all capitalisms. (similarity 0.81)
• Marxist theory neglects how conquest shapes capitalist insertion of conquered strata (similarity 0.80)
• Racism gets reorganized by each mode of production rather than being constant (similarity 0.79)
• Plantation slavery was formally not capitalist yet functioned within global merchant capital circuits. (similarity 0.79)
• Racism is reorganized by each mode of production and never reducible to other relations (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism roots in pre-capitalist societies only through imposed transitional colonial modes (similarity 0.79)
• Marx’s 1857 Introduction supports viewing social formation as an articulated hierarchy. (similarity 0.79)
• Marx’s method jointly requires material grounding and historical specificity (similarity 0.79)
• Social formation elements articulate with each other in complex ways (similarity 0.79)
• Understanding capitalist structures must precede effective revolutionary practice (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Social formations form complex unities structured in dominance rather than expressive identities. #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 616
• Marxism reads social formations as overdetermined unities with relatively autonomous levels #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 336
• World market expansion can intensify pre-capitalist production relations. #corroborates (0.70) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 610
• Crises in capitalism do not inevitably dissolve pre-capitalist modes. #corroborates (0.65) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 609