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The theory of the Asiatic mode of production (AMP) was devised by Karl Marx around the early 1850s. The essence of the theory has been described as "[the] suggestion ... that Asiatic societies were held in thrall by a despotic ruling clique, residing in central cities and directly expropriating surplus from largely autarkic and generally undifferentiated village communities".
The Asiatic mode of production is a controversial contribution to Marxist theory, first used to explain pre-slave and pre-feudal large earthwork constructions in India, the Euphrates and Nile river valleys (and named on this basis of the primary evidence coming from greater "Asia"). The Asiatic mode of production is said to be the initial form ...
The Rise And Fall Of The Theory Of The Asiatic Mode Of Production; Chapter 10. ... Wittfogel "does not write of Chinese government and society as a historian; the ...
The theory of Engels developed from study of Ancient Society (1877) by Lewis H. Morgan and from the sketches of this work by Karl Marx on the Asiatic mode of production. [72] Engels argues that the state developed as a result of the need to protect private property.
According to Geertz, one of the most important of state institutions in Bali is the irrigation society (subak) given the theoretical emphasis placed upon irrigation in the materialist models of the "Asiatic mode of production." These models viewed the control of irrigation by lords as the major means of also controlling the population that ...
The Fate of Marxist Democrats in Leninist Party-States: China's Debate on the Asiatic Mode of Production, Theory and Society 16 (1987): pages 709-740. Utopian, Anti-Utopian, and Dystopian Ideas in Philosophical Daoism, Comparative Asian Development 2:2 (Fall 2003): pages 211-231
Said Zakirovich Gafurov (born 1967) is a Russian scholar, Marxian economist, orientalist, bureaucrat, and opera critic.After working in the government in his early career, Gafurov transitioned into the academic sector and is now Director of the Institute of Asian and African Countries in Moscow [2] and an associate professor at Moscow State Linguistic University. [3]
A form of government where the monarch is elected, a modern example being the King of Cambodia, who is chosen by the Royal Council of the Throne; Vatican City is also often considered a modern elective monarchy. Self-proclaimed monarchy: A form of government where the monarch claims a monarch title without a nexus to the previous monarch dynasty.