The Brenner debate was a major debate amongst Marxist historians during the late 1970s and early 1980s, regarding the origins of capitalism. The debate began with Robert Brenner's 1976 journal article "Agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial Europe", published in the influential historical journal Past & Present.[1]
It has been seen as a successor to the so-called "transition debate" (or Dobb-Sweezy debate) that followed Maurice Dobb's 1946 Studies in the Development of Capitalism,[2] and Paul Sweezy's 1950 article "The transition from feudalism to capitalism", in the journal Science & Society.[3] These articles were subsequently collected and published as a book, also entitled The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism, in 1976.[4]
Historians Trevor Aston and C. H. E. Philpin (1985) characterised the Brenner debate as "one of the most important historical debates of recent years."[5]
- ^ Brenner, Robert (1976). "Agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial Europe". Past and Present. 70 (1): 30–75. doi:10.1093/past/70.1.30.
- ^ Harman, Chris (29 November 2004). "The rise of capitalism". International Socialism (102).
- ^ Sweezy, Paul M.; Dobb, Maurice (1950). "The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism". Science & Society. 14 (2): 134–167. ISSN 0036-8237.
- ^ The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism, ed. by R. H. Hilton (London: Verso, 1976).
- ^ Trevor Aston and C. H. E. Philpin, 'Preface', in The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe, ed. by Trevor Aston and C.H.E. Philpin, Past and Present Publications (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. vii.
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