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Critique of Caribbean Plantation Economy by bolontiku9 is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses the "plantation economy" perspective for explaining underdevelopment in the Caribbean. It argues that plantations were highly capitalistic enterprises from the start, established to produce goods for profit through the combination of land, labor, capital, management and technology provided by European colonizers. However, the document aims to critique this perspective and argue that the original causes of underdevelopment were the slave relations of production, not just the plantatio

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bolontiku9

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