The Dull Compulsion of Economic Relations
A Critique of the Zers-Sum Conception of Oppression
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3914906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Metcalfe (0000-0001-6293-1706, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 167-180 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mankind (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-2328 • E-ISSN: 2204-2121 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1835-9310.1986.tb00732.x |
| OpenAlex | W2044346696 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
According to one of the most influential formulations of the zero-sum conception of oppression, the proletariat has nothing to lose in uprising but its chains. The oppressed people studied in this paper, however, had much more at stake. The dull compulsion of economic relations acted as a ‘tertiary negative injunction’, stopping their escape from the wage-labour/capital relation and trapping their political practice within double binds. They were caught between their interest in overthrowing the wage-labour/capital relation and their interest in defending the strategic accommodations they had made within the relation. This argument is pursued through examination of class relations in the Coalfields area of the Hunter Valley of Australia
Argument (complex analysis) · Capital (architecture) · Economics · Epistemology · Labour economics · Nothing · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Relation (database) · Sociology · Wage · Anarchism and Radical Politics · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 1988 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |