Journal article
Capitalism, primitive accumulation and the 1960s' massacres: Revisiting the New Order and its violent genesis
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol.16(2), pp.306-315
2015
Abstract
This article offers a critique of Hilmar Farid's (and to a lesser extent, Colm McNaughton's) contribution in this journal about the 1960s' anti-communist massacres, primitive accumulation and capitalist development in Indonesia. While agreeing that the massacres can be usefully tied to primitive accumulation it is argued that Farid's work displays some serious conceptual misunderstandings about the workings of capitalist development in Indonesia under the New Order as well as the social, political and economic underpinnings of that regime. As such, this paper finds that there are some major faults as well in his presentation of the logic of capitalist accumulation, the way it has been manifest historically in the Indonesian case and its role in the emergence of the New Order. Furthermore, the article suggests that a fundamental misreading may have been committed by Farid due to a fetish for New Order violence that hinders understanding of its political economy.
Details
- Title
- Capitalism, primitive accumulation and the 1960s' massacres: Revisiting the New Order and its violent genesis
- Authors/Creators
- V.R. Hadiz (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol.16(2), pp.306-315
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Identifiers
- 991005545200307891
- Copyright
- Taylor and Francis
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Asia Research Centre
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Note
- Published online: 22 June 2015
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This output has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:
Source: InCites
Metrics
211 File views/ downloads
183 Record Views
InCites Highlights
These are selected metrics from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool, related to this output
- Citation topics
- 6 Social Sciences
- 6.146 Anthropology
- 6.146.2370 Indonesian Sociopolitics
- Web Of Science research areas
- Anthropology
- Asian Studies
- Cultural Studies
- ESI research areas
- Social Sciences, general