Tag: Social Reproduction
States of Indebtedness
Brandon Webb and Matthew Penney use Japanese state debt to show how both mainstream economics’ fiscal panic narratives and Modern Monetary Theory’s (MMT) closed economy model fail to account for how the monetization of public debt fuels speculative finance, redistributes wealth upward, and undermines social reproduction. A Marxist account of money does far better and points towards the need for a different, non-fetishized social form.
Non-natalism
Leslie Root shows how misguided it is for the left to accept pro-natalist positions. Worry about declining birth rates is based on a misinterpretation of the Total Fertility Rate, and minor social policies promoting higher birth rates will be met with pyrrhic defeat, producing backlash against minorities. The left can rely on better demographic data, and debates on the issue should be informed by reproductive justice, family abolition, and feminism.
The Crisis of Social Reproduction, Women’s Agency, and Feminism in China
Ralf Ruckus interviews Yige Dong on the crisis of social reproduction in China, highlighting left feminisms and expanding women’s agency.
China’s Other Crisis
The People’s Republic of China has been hit by capitalism’s historical tendency toward fertility decline, a result of both increasing economic burdens on the proletariat and women’s resistance. So far, women have withstood the pressures from the Chinese Communist Party regime to give up their birth strike and bear more children.
The Hopes of Disalienation
Isadora Seconi and Sean K. Isaacs review Alan Sears’s Eros and Alienation, looking at the book’s utopian implications for ecosocialism and Marxist theory.
The Centrality of Reproduction and the Question of Labor Power
Sean K. Isaacs reviews Rebecca Carson’s Immanent Externalities, arguing that social reproduction politics demands a recentering of labor power.
Workers of the Earth, Unite!
Dan Boscov-Ellen interviews Stefania Barca about her new book on the potentiality of workers as ecological subjects and what this means for the future of ecosocialist strategy.
Reproducing Life Through Capital
Pedro M. Rey-Araújo offers a critical amendment to social reproduction’s idealization of life-making practices through an analysis of capital’s logic.
I Forgot to Die
Tithi Bhattacharya uses Social Reproduction Theory to think Palestinians’ irrepressible creative flourishing beyond Israel’s genocidal assault on life and lifemaking.
Social Reproduction Theory and Disability
What then might those committed to social reproduction theory as a mode of concretizing Marxism be able to say regarding “disability”?