The Dull Compulsion of Economic Relations

A Critique of the Zers-Sum Conception of Oppression

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3914906
AutoresAndrew Metcalfe (0000-0001-6293-1706, Macquarie University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen16
Número3
Páginas167-180
Fecha de publicación2009-02-10
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMankind (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0025-2328 • E-ISSN: 2204-2121
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1835-9310.1986.tb00732.x
OpenAlexW2044346696
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas21

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