The Analysis of Capitalist Landownership: An Investigation of the Case of Great Britain (1977)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The boom and collapse of the land and property market in the early 1970s in Great Britain revealed a lack of knowledge and understanding of the present nature of private landownership by capital. The reaction of ‘the left’ (including that of the present author) to the events of that period was confused. One possible interpretation was to write off the political battle […] as just one more victory for industrial capital, in this case against the moribund remains of something called ‘landed property’. This latter, it was vaguely suspected, quite possibly still had feudal connections but was now virtually extinct, and certainly posed no major difficulties for capital. The problem with this interpretation – apart from incorrect assumptions of association between aristocracy, landownership and feudalism – was that it failed to answer the question of what role private landownership now plays in the British social formation. The assumption in fact appeared to be that landownership now played no structural role. But events themselves belied that view. […] The existing pattern of private landownership clearly was having contradictory repercussions on the wider processes of accumulation and of the reproduction of social relations. A common alternative view recognized the existence of such structural contradictions but attributed them to something variously entitled ‘the property sector’ and ‘landed capital’. The difficulty of this interpretation was that the definition and nature of this landed interest, and consequently of its specific economic and political effects, were left unanalysed. The research from which this paper stems was concerned to analyse both the present nature of private landownership by capital in Great Britain, and also the effects of such private landownership on a social formation dominated by capitalism. This paper will indicate some of the results of that enquiry and will also make some points on the interpretation of struggles over, and changes in, the form of landownership in such a social formation. […] [It contains] a brief outline and analysis […] of the present forms of landownership by private capital in Great Britain, and of their relative importance. An overall theme stresses […] [the significance of structural social relations and] the empirical study of such relations in concrete social formations […].
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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