out if those contracts serve public good in a fair way or if they sustain a power structure. Also, the granting of licenses for all sorts of state sanctioned activities can turn out as unfair wealth distribution. Another important redistribution channel is by State supported financing of private enterprise activities. Relation to Marxism Harvey links these practices to what Karl Marx called original or primitive accumulation, and ties these to examples from the real world. He therefore draws on the theory of ongoing primitive accumulation by Rosa Luxemburg as laid out in The Accumulation of Capital. The neoliberal modernity is, according to Harvey, a modernity in which dispossession plays a large role and in which the capital class is gaining power at the expense of the labour class. Contemporary movements against accumulation by dispossession Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa The Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee in India The EZLN in Mexico Fanmi Lavalas in Haiti The Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil The Landless Peoples Movement in South Africa The Landless Workers' Movement in Brazil Movement for Justice en el Barrio in the United States Narmada Bachao Andolan in India The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa Occupy Homes in the United States Take Back the Land in the United States See also Capital accumulation Common land Primitive accumulation of capital Property is theft! Socialist accumulation The internal contradictions of capital accumulation Wage slavery References Further reading Harvey, D. 2004. The 'new' imperialism: accumulation by dispossession. Socialist Register 40: 63-87. David Harvey, Reading Marx's Capital Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 12, Chapters 26-33, The Secret of Primitive Accumulation (video lecture) The Nation-State, Core and Periphery: A Brief sketch of Imperialism in the 20th century. Marxian economics Socialism