primitive term
1.Before any capitalist mode of production is firmly established, there has to be a stage of "primitive accumulation of capital." This term carries a dual meaning: on one side there is the concentration of wealth allowing the initial accumulation of capital for industrialization; on the other there is the formation of a ree"labor force which makes possible production based on wage labor.
2.The term manufacturing is too vague to be of much use when precision is required, and when I employ it, I wish to be understood as intending to speak popularly rather than scientifically.NOTES:1. The able and friendly reviewer of this treatise in the Edinburgh Review (October 1848) conceives the distinction between materials and implements rather differently; proposing to consider as materials "all things which, after having undergone the change implied in production, are themselves matter of exchange," and as implements (or instruments) "the things which are employed in producing that change, but do not themselves become part of the exchangeable result." According to these definitions, the fuel consumed in a manufactory would be considered, not as a material, but as an instrument. This use of the terms accords better that that proposed in the text, with the primitive physical meaning of the word "material"; but the distinction on which it is grounded is one almost irrelevant to political economy.
