Özel bir tür kolonyalizm: Apartheid
Özet
This study investigates the relationship between Apartheid, officialized in 1948, and capitalism within the context of primitive capital accumulation theories from a historical perspective. The aim of the thesis is to test the consistency of the approach that the primitive capital accumulation is functional as a permanent element at every stage of contemporary capitalism regarding Apartheid regime. The main finding of this study is that Apartheid was a method applied in order to re-dispossess in industrialized capitalism of South Africa in a primitive capital accumulation manner. The dispossession instrument of Apartheid is based on racial discrimination as a means of structural violence. In this context, in the first chapter, theories of primitive capital accumulation will be compared and types of colonialism will be classified. In the second section, historical process of capital accumulation in South Africa, and economic and political relationships with the white government and Britain during this period will be explained. In the third and last section, Apartheid's economic, political and social practices will be discussed. Then, Apartheid's relations with international capital, Britain and the United States will be examined. Finally, the argument "whether Apartheid is a special kind of colonialism or not" will be discussed. The main purpose of this section is to consider Apartheid's economic base. Thus, racism's effect on the development of capitalism of South Africa will be clarified. In the rest of the section, current situation in South Africa will be evaluated and the future of South Africa will be discussed.