"The interpretative framework here provided stressed the continuity of primitive accumulation and its fundamental persistence in mature capitalist economies. The foundation of this continuity is found once we recognise what Marx calls the ″oppositional nature of the capitalistrelation″. The result is, I believe, a picture of Marx′s theory of primitive accumulation which gives us insights into the essential character of capitalist accumulation itself -- the divorce between producers and means of production -- and about the limits posed on capitalist accumulation by social struggles...." (Autor)
