World market expansion can intensify pre-capitalist production relations.

Evidence

This is a dialectical process because such local happenings may move in an obverse direction from the very distanciated relations that shape them. Local transformation is as much a part of globalisation as the lateral extension of social connections across time and space. … The increasing prosperity of an urban area in Singapore might be causally related, via a complicated network of global economic ties, to the impoverishment of a neighbourhood in Pittsburgh whose local products are uncompetitive in world markets. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 167 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Capitalist and formally pre-capitalist modes combine in structured dominance.; Capitalism extended feudal relations rather than negating them; Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (+2 more)

Broader Connections