Social Reproduction and the Transformation at the Edge of Chaos

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ID4436219
AuthorsMassimo De Angelis (0000-0001-5268-6559, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume118
Issue4
Pages747-766
Publication date2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-7825588
OpenAlexW2981248780
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited10

In this article, I want to explore some complexities of a politics grounded on social reproduction. Among the many possible objectives of the commons, the most important for the purpose of thinking through a process of trans-formative social change are those that aim at reclaiming the conditions of social reproduction and subject these to new value practices. A politics based on social reproduction would imply the progressive subtraction of social and natural wealth and labor time from the control of capital, and their (re)production and circulation in the processes of the commons. The complexity of this progressive subtraction must of course be pointed out, because the power of capital is founded on a complex assemblage of social relations, resources, discourses and narratives, rights, state policies, and, ultimately, the institutionalized monopoly of violence that aims at protecting and increasing this power. For this reason, any viable strategy of postcapitalist transformation must rely on the disarticulation of these assemblages while at the same time reproducing bodies and ecosystems. Hence the focus on social reproduction

Commons · Economic system · Economics · Environmental ethics · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Reproduction · Social capital · Social change · Social reproduction · Social science · Social transformation · Sociology · Ecology · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Social and Economic Solidarity

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