{"title":"Redefining the concept of disability in the United Kingdom’s conditional welfare state: Welfare scarcity approach","authors":"Mariusz Baranowski","doi":"10.1177/03098168241269152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241269152","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to reconstruct the ‘silent’ reformulation of the notion of disability within social policy systems in recent decades. Particular attention is given to the practices implemented in the United Kingdom as an example of a conditional welfare state with advanced workfare arrangements (primarily in the form of the Employment and Support Allowance scheme). The redefinition of disability from the perspective of changes in the criteria determining social benefits – that is, in reality, limiting the social rights of this, as one British economist put it, ‘silent minority’ – is framed as part of a broader trend termed ‘antisocial social policy’ and is captured through the lens of welfare scarcity, a component of welfare sociology. This proposed framing, based on a Marx-inspired critical analysis, fills the gaps in the concept of welfare state retrenchment which excessively focuses on conservative right-wing politics.","PeriodicalId":205759,"journal":{"name":"Capital & Class","volume":"15 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141927642","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":"An examination of capitalism’s influence on student affairs labor in higher education","authors":"Kirk S. Robinson","doi":"10.1177/03098168241268248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241268248","url":null,"abstract":"This essay aims to uncover capitalism’s influence over student affairs labor in higher education, by which is meant the labor of non-faculty, student-facing professionals on collegiate campuses globally. It contrasts with works foregrounding neoliberal analyses of the profession, which tend to show the impacts of neoliberal capitalism on student affairs labor in the present, disembodied from the whole of the capitalist system. With assistance from Marx’s notion of contradiction (derived from his dialectical approach), this essay reveals how capitalism’s influence on American higher educational institutions transformed the faculty role and paved the way for student affairs to come into existence. The use of Marx’s value-form helps explain the nature of student affairs practitioners’ labor as abstract. Following that, this work establishes student affairs labor as producing the labor-power commodity for capitalism and implements Marx’s subsumption categories to identify the ideal subsumption of student affairs labor. To conclude, there is brief discussion of an alternative to the current neoliberal university and student affairs labors’ place within it. Achieving this alternative will require political struggle against capitalism and organizing for the common.","PeriodicalId":205759,"journal":{"name":"Capital & Class","volume":"28 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141927049","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":"Corrigendum to Social reproduction theory and critical state theory after the COVID-19 syndemic","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/03098168241262573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241262573","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205759,"journal":{"name":"Capital & Class","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141355823","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 project of a Marxist-feminist international: a project in movement","authors":"Mònica Clua-Losada, Frigga Haug","doi":"10.1177/03098168241234120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241234120","url":null,"abstract":"This interview with Frigga Haug explores the thirteen thesis which were developed collectively during three different international conferences and Frigga Haug authored the 13 theses. The goal was to make the feminist movement sustainable with a Marxist spirit and to bring Marxism to life. The theses are a work in progress, a framework for the foundation of a Marxist-feminist international, they are sustainable enough for them to stand the test through the specific changed conditions of our historically determined spaces of movement, and flexible enough that they would not harden into chains.","PeriodicalId":205759,"journal":{"name":"Capital & Class","volume":"53 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140672548","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":"Rethinking gender, race, and class from the concept of Labor– Interview with Nancy Fraser","authors":"Jule Goikoetxea","doi":"10.1177/03098168241234119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241234119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205759,"journal":{"name":"Capital & Class","volume":"49 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140694752","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":"Global capital accumulation and national varieties of capitalism: The political economy of Argentina and Australia in comparative perspective","authors":"N. Grinberg","doi":"10.1177/03098168241240475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241240475","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a comparative analysis of the institutional settings and political dynamics in Australia and Argentina. This analysis is based on an understanding of nation-state political processes as forms of realisation of global-scale capital accumulation. After identifying a common specificity in their capitalist development based on the production of primary commodities under favourable natural conditions and the appropriation of ground-rent by competing social subjects, as well as the natural and historical conditions leading to differentiation, the article traces the common and distinctive political and institutional forms of realisation of the process of capital accumulation in both societies. The comparative analysis of the experiences of Argentina and Australia offered in this article provides a solid critique of mainstream types of institutional political economy.","PeriodicalId":205759,"journal":{"name":"Capital & Class","volume":"28 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140696095","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 transformation of values into prices of production apropos of Moseley’s Money and Totality","authors":"Juan Iñigo-Carrera","doi":"10.1177/03098168241240473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241240473","url":null,"abstract":"Mosely’s book provides a vantage point for a critical analysis of the ‘transformation problem’, as it questions the dominant conceptions that reduce the methodological debate to a matter of constructing systems of equations; at the same time, it shares with them the reduction of the methodological question to a matter of interpreting Marx’s texts. Moseley interprets ‘Capital’ as a logical representation composed of a macro theory and a micro theory. The article starts by showing how this approach mutilates the organic unity between social capital and individual capitals. Consequently, focus is placed on Moseley’s presupposition of values as if they were given in prices of production to explain the determination of these same prices, as well as on his exclusion of gold’s exchangeability as a product of capital from the transformation process. The article extends the methodological analysis to the above-mentioned prevailing conceptions and their ideological basis. Next, it shows how they coincide with Moseley’s in the logical inconsistency of assuming that the value of total variable capital and total surplus value appear unchanged in prices of production, although the organic compositions of the spheres that produce their material content differ from the social average. At this point, the real issue is brought forward: it is not about interpreting Marx’s texts in search of a ‘given’ or an ‘invariance postulate’ to construct a model that satisfies them; the point is to follow Marx’s methodological proposal to reproduce by way of thought the concrete determinations that make values take the complete form of prices of production of a certain magnitude. Finally, the article follows this path to demonstrate how, even if the value contents of total variable capital and total surplus value remain quantitatively unchanged, the prices of production in which they necessarily take form will quantitatively differ from those value contents.","PeriodicalId":205759,"journal":{"name":"Capital & Class","volume":"119 4‐5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140731261","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":"Francophone materialist feminism, the missing link: Towards a Marxist feminism that accounts for the interlockedness of sex, race and class","authors":"J. Falquet","doi":"10.1177/03098168241234090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241234090","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the Marxist-Feminist Theses III and VIII. It is based on the ‘French-speaking materialist feminist’ theoretical perspective that has been developed at the end of the 1970s by Colette Guillaumin (with the concept of ‘sexage’), Monique Wittig (with the concept of ‘straight mind’), Nicole-Claude Mathieu, Christine Delphy and other members of the Nouvelles Questions Féministes journal’s board. The article first presents this theorization, which is too unknown to many English-speaking theorists. It then shows how ‘French-speaking materialist feminist’ theoretical perspective fully demonstrated that ‘sex’ was a structural social relation as much as class is (Gender relations are relations of production). The article also analyses how this theoretical perspective enables us to pay a deep attention to the ‘race question’. Therefore, it appears as the missing link that can help bridging at least two important theoretical and political gaps: first, between Marxist feminism and lesbian theory, and, second, between Black feminism and Marxist feminism.","PeriodicalId":205759,"journal":{"name":"Capital & Class","volume":"36 27","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140728385","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":"Hegemony, capitalism and peace: A critique of the ‘armed peace’ in Urabá, Colombia","authors":"Daniel López Pérez","doi":"10.1177/03098168241232374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241232374","url":null,"abstract":"This article delves into the concept of ‘armed peace’ in the context of the social and armed conflict in Urabá, Colombia. The term ‘armed peace’ refers to the relative stability that was established in Urabá since the 1990s, when paramilitary groups took control of the region from subversive guerrillas with the aid of the state, local capitalists, Banana transnational corporations, and trade unions. This stability was achieved through a paramilitary rule that was based on capitalist interests and enabled by the suppression of subversion. The study explores the relationship between peace and consent, and how consent has affected social and production relations in Urabá. By examining the Colombian conflict as a hegemonic vehicle that has shaped the peace in Urabá, this article aims to shed light on how apparent social phenomena can be essential to capitalism in specific contexts. Hegemonic vehicles are historical institutions that restructure social relations and, through concessions, hinder class struggle. In Colombia, the conflict can be understood as such as it has been institutionalized to gain workers’ consent to the social order over time. In Urabá, this process allowed for the reorganization of interests and the establishment of the status quo’s armed peace, which overtook the old consent to the project of subversive peace. Our analysis could extend beyond Colombia’s specific case and seeks to critique social institutions that enjoy relative ‘consensus’ but serve to transport and enforce capitalism’s core values. These historically specific structures play a key role in achieving consent to capitalism in conflictive social relations, both in and beyond the workplace, and exist within specific social contexts that echo the hegemonic global political economy.","PeriodicalId":205759,"journal":{"name":"Capital & Class","volume":"20 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140432214","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":"Life and growth of the Thirteen Marxist Feminist Theses","authors":"Jule Goikoetxea, Mònica Clua-Losada","doi":"10.1177/03098168241234110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241234110","url":null,"abstract":"The fourth international Marxist feminist conference was the most international and best attended with around 700 participants, including Silvia Federici, Nancy Fraser, Tithi Bhattacharya, Lorena Cabnal, Ochy Curiel, Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Elsa Dorlin, Jules Falquet, and Frigga Haug. The main themes of the panels established continuity with the previous conferences, from debates on intersectionality which overlap in various fields with practical and theoretical issues such as value, the state, law, care, production, and social reproduction to those that were closely linked to the thinking of new organizations and repertoires of struggle. This Special Issue is based on the plenary titled: the Thirteen Theses of Marxist Feminism. Frigga Haug, the author of The Thirteen Theses, considers all of them in her opening interview. The most widely debated theses by the Special Issue contributors are Theses I, II, and III on relations of production and the production of the means of life followed by theses from V to VIII which deal with intersectionality and how to study race, class and gender, the role of labor movement in the process of emancipation, and the issue of primary and secondary contradictions which is closely related to the development of an effective political emancipatory subject. The Special Issue closes with an interview with the philosopher Nancy Fraser on the three faces of labor.","PeriodicalId":205759,"journal":{"name":"Capital & Class","volume":"22 S5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140434406","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}