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A letter to comrade Max Ajl’s and comments on his paper: Does the Arab region have an agrarian question?

Published in The Journal of Peasant Studies

https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fjps20

Link to article: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2020.1753706

Published online: 20 May 2020.

Dear Max,

The above …

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