{"title":"Imperialism: Don't Let the Trees Keep You from Seeing the Forest","authors":"Julio Huato","doi":"10.1521/siso.2024.88.3.346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2024.88.3.346","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"55 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141699180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Possibility of Market Socialism","authors":"Arthur DiQuattro","doi":"10.1521/siso.2024.88.3.422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2024.88.3.422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"79 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141701223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Political Economy of Digital Technology","authors":"Julio Huato","doi":"10.1521/siso.2024.88.2.212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2024.88.2.212","url":null,"abstract":"The world is undergoing a profound revolution in the technical conditions of production due to the rapid buildup and pervasive use of digital machinery. It constitutes a radical transformation in the scale and mode of labor cooperation in the reproduction of our lives. As with any other technological development under the rule of capital, the fruits of labor cooperation are expropriated from the workers and weaponized against them as vehicles of class exploitation, capital accumulation, imperialist domination, and militarism. Three ideologies accompany this revolution in capitalist production: disembodied technology, technological determinism, and the fear of the rebellious machines. Socialists face the challenge of appropriating and redirecting technology, turning it into a means of radical liberation and socialist construction.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"9 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140764257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Targeted Poverty Alleviation in China: The Policy Perspective of the Communist Party of China","authors":"Nana Liu, Guixian Wang","doi":"10.1521/siso.2024.88.2.250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2024.88.2.250","url":null,"abstract":"China's achievements in poverty alleviation and reduction are obvious and it is necessary to summarize as well as rethink the experience of it. In discussing poverty-alleviation policies over time before 2012 and targeted poverty alleviation started in 2012, it is clear that the leading and decisive role of the CPC is the key to understanding China's poverty alleviation, for both achievements and challenges. Targeting is essential at an early stage to get the targeted poverty alleviation project moving, but it must give way to the organic integration of poverty-vulnerable people into social-economic reproduction if a secure foundation for the alleviation of poverty is to be laid. To solve the problem of poverty, there should be an effective combination of the CPC's leadership in rural governance and the inherited autonomy of farmers, the true and dominant driving force of China's rural development.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"65 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140784061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working-Class Soldiers, Social Reproduction, and the State","authors":"Jasmine Chorley-Schulz","doi":"10.1521/siso.2024.88.2.272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2024.88.2.272","url":null,"abstract":"The explicitly harmful role of working-class soldiers in capitalist society is nevertheless reproductive. The working-class soldier reproduces capitalist social relations via the reproduction of the working class, the capitalist state, and imperialism. Drawing on Marxist feminism, it becomes apparent that the household and state production processes of soldiers’ concrete labor constitute state force, and in doing so collect a wage to use in household production and reproduction, and perform reproductive domestic labor in institutional and/or private household settings. Typically, soldiers are part of the working class by virtue of their mostly, and counterintuitively, indistinct relationships to value. However, this does not necessitate a general extension of solidarity to soldiers as a sub-class, considering the nature of the concrete labor they perform. Ultimately, the case of the soldier brings into relief the impossibility of resolving the capitalist contradictions constitutive of the state and the working class.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"216 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140764672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three Marxist Lessons for 21st-Century History and Philosophy of Science","authors":"Maurizio Esposito","doi":"10.1521/siso.2024.88.2.184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2024.88.2.184","url":null,"abstract":"What can we learn from a Marxist history and philosophy of science? There are at least three crucial lessons that scholars should seriously reassess. First, the idea that there is a constitutive relation between practice and theory in knowledge production. This was a central concern for many Marxist HPS scholars and led them to conceive “science” as a praxis and as a situated, and not exclusively intellectual, enterprise. Second, the idea that there is a thread connecting social relations, technologies, and scientific abstractions. Modes of thinking and understanding are related to particular social formations. And third, the idea that modern science is both a cause and product of capitalist modes of production, which expanded globally and generated all sorts of inequalities and polarizations. Altogether, these lessons put forward a coherent perspective addressing the socioeconomic nature of scientific knowledge, which is still relevant today.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"842 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140774939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spanish and Chinese Translations of Article Abstracts","authors":"","doi":"10.1521/siso.2024.88.1.176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2024.88.1.176","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"4 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139455565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Víctor Álvarez Rodríguez, Alexander Buzgalin, María Auxiliadora César, Robin Hahnel, Pablo González Casanova, Narciso Isa Conde, Nana Liu, Panduleni Kaino Shingenge
{"title":"International Perspectives","authors":"Víctor Álvarez Rodríguez, Alexander Buzgalin, María Auxiliadora César, Robin Hahnel, Pablo González Casanova, Narciso Isa Conde, Nana Liu, Panduleni Kaino Shingenge","doi":"10.1521/siso.2024.88.1.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2024.88.1.135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"22 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139456764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Community Organizing for Neighborhood Transformation: Facing Evolving Challenges","authors":"Maritza Lopez McBean","doi":"10.1521/siso.2024.88.1.92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2024.88.1.92","url":null,"abstract":"The Integral Neighborhood Transformation Workshops (TTIBs, Spanish acronym) are community organizations that use a comprehensive and participatory work approach, involving government, social institutions, and the population in the transformations each community needs. These innovative forms of community involvement in today's revolutionary Cuba deserve greater visibility. They have received renewed attention as the government revitalizes initiatives to transform vulnerable communities, especially after the protests on July 11, 2021. Their origins, social significance, main functions, forms in which they structure themselves, outstanding challenges in the way to their sustained success, and main results require a close examination.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"7 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139455518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cuba: Achievements and Crossroads","authors":"Claudio Katz","doi":"10.1521/siso.2024.88.1.119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2024.88.1.119","url":null,"abstract":"The destructive obsession of the United States with Cuba persists after six decades, and the blockade continues with as much intensity as the counterrevolutionary plots. The reforms to reverse the stagnant economy have been postponed for fear of undermining the social gains of the revolution. However, a mixture of market and combined forms of accumulation with state protagonism is unavoidable to recover growth. The recent protests reflected these tensions, which the government managed by neutralizing the right-wing exploitation of social unrest. Renewing the political system would allow processing the economic and social mutation underway. The feat of sustaining the Revolution is recognized internationally by the significant regional current of solidarity and ignored by social democracy, which covers imperial harassment with a polite mask. The experience of Eastern Europe has debunked the illusion of a socialist denouement from actions sponsored by the right. Left critiques must offer viable alternatives based on contemporary experiences.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"26 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139456636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}