The Dull Compulsion of Economic Relations

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

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