Race and Reification

IF 0.9 4区社会学 0 PHILOSOPHY

Historical Materialism-Research in Critical Marxist Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI:10.1163/1569206x-bja10016

Matthew Dimick

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Abstract This article uses Marx’s idea of commodity fetishism and subsequent theories of reification to understand the social construction of race. Race is typically defined as a socially-constituted category that is mischaracterised as a natural one. The goal of this article, in contrast, is to explain how this mischaracterisation arises. In addition to this main objective, the article uses this explanation of race to contest recent attempts that locate the ‘persistent entanglement’ of race and capital in their functional relationship. Finally, the article engages with related, commodity-based theories of race and racism and concludes with thoughts on what the socially-constructed category of race can teach us about the nature of value and capitalism.

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种族与物化

本文运用马克思的商品拜物教思想及其物化理论来理解种族的社会建构。种族通常被定义为一个社会构成的类别，被错误地描述为一个自然的类别。相反，本文的目的是解释这种错误描述是如何产生的。除了这一主要目标之外，本文还使用种族的这种解释来反驳最近的一些尝试，这些尝试将种族和资本的“持续纠缠”定位在它们的功能关系中。最后，文章涉及了相关的、基于商品的种族和种族主义理论，并总结了社会建构的种族类别可以教给我们关于价值和资本主义本质的思考。

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期刊介绍： Historical Materialism is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring and developing the critical and explanatory potential of Marxist theory. The journal started as a project at the London School of Economics from 1995 to 1998. The advisory editorial board comprises many leading Marxists, including Robert Brenner, Maurice Godelier, Michael Lebowitz, Justin Rosenberg, Ellen Meiksins Wood and others. Marxism has manifested itself in the late 1990s from the pages of the Financial Times to new work by Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton and David Harvey. Unburdened by pre-1989 ideological baggage, Historical Materialism stands at the edge of a vibrant intellectual current, publishing a new generation of Marxist thinkers and scholars.