but also for his attempt to synthesize Marxian and Weberian approaches. Looking at various measures of capitalist penetration in different commodity groups, Mooney(1983) argues that while family farms may not be capitalist in the strictest sense of the word they are still part of a capitalist system and therefore subject to its logics of exploitation. Mooney thus speaks of"detours" to capitalist exploitation rather than immutable"barriers";though, as Mann and Dickinson(1987) later point out, their"barriers" are not insurmountable.