ABSTRACT
This paper presents an alternative view of agricultural commercialization in the capitalist development process in Brazil, in contrast with the functionalist approach derived from neoclassical economic theory. Agricultural commercialization is a capital circulation activity whose form depends on the social organization of agricultural production and the development of capital concentration, both determined by the modernization process of the Brazilian economy. The conclusion remark upon the tendency toward subordination of circulation activities, the growing importance of different types of capital (agrarian, commercial, agroindustrial and “entrepreneurial cooperatives”) and of the financial appreciation of capital used in agricultural production and circulation.
KEYWORDS:
Agriculture; agricultural market; marxism