Bourgois Philippe
The Center for Social Medicine at the Semel Institute, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Third World Q. 2018;39(2):385-398. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1411187. Epub 2018 Feb 13.
The cultural and political-economic valences of psychoactive drugs in the Global South offer critical insights on local and international fault lines of social inequality and profiteering. Historically, in a classic primitive accumulation process the trafficking of industrially produced euphoric substances across the globe have wreaked havoc among vulnerable populations while extracting profit for the powerful. The complex flows of capital generated both by illegal addiction markets and also by the mobilisation of licit public funds to manage their mayhem, however, suggest the contemporary utility of the concept of 'predatory accumulation'. The Enlightenmentera concept of 'primitive accumulation' usefully highlighted state violence and forcible dispossession in the consolidation of European capitalism. A contemporary reframing of these processes as predatory accumulation, however, highlights contradictory, nonlinear relationships between the artificially high profits of illegal drug sales, repressive governmentality and corporate greed. It sets these patterns of destructive profiteering in the context of our moment in history.
全球南方精神活性药物的文化和政治经济效价，为社会不平等和暴利的地方及国际断层线提供了重要见解。从历史上看，在一个典型的原始积累过程中，工业生产的欣快物质在全球的贩运给弱势群体带来了巨大破坏，同时为权贵阶层谋取了利益。然而，非法成瘾市场以及为控制其危害而调动合法公共资金所产生的复杂资本流动，表明了“掠夺性积累”概念在当代的效用。启蒙时代的“原始积累”概念有效地突出了欧洲资本主义巩固过程中的国家暴力和强行剥夺。然而，将这些过程当代性地重新界定为掠夺性积累，突出了非法毒品销售的人为高额利润、压制性治理手段和企业贪婪之间的矛盾、非线性关系。它将这些破坏性的暴利模式置于我们这个历史时刻的背景之中。
