Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World

Das, Raju J

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“…Moreover, the impact of formal subsumption on labour processes is in proportion to the size of capital involved; that is, the bigger the chunk of capital inserting itself into – or, in platform parlance, disrupting – an existing form of work organisation, the more fully labour is subsumed under its control. While the study of work and workers in the global North has often been preoccupied with the technologies and management systems of factory-based mass production – that is, the realm of real subsumption – as Das (2017) has noted, on a global scale, formal subsumption remains the most common form of the labour–capital relation.…”

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Rediscovering the cash nexus, again: Subsumption and the labour–capital relation in platform work

Joyce

2020

Capital & Class

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This article proposes a re-theorisation of the main social relations of platform work, based on two concepts drawn from Marx: subsumption of labour and the cash nexus. Platform work research to date is heavily empirical in character, with little theoretical development. As a result, the social relations of platform work are treated descriptively, using ad hoc or common-sense categories, or platforms’ own terminology. This under-theorisation leads to over-estimation of platform work’s novelty, decentring of capital in accounts of its development, incipient technological determinism and problematic generalisation from emergent trends. In place of the commonly assumed ‘triangle’ of platform work relations, this article argues that platform work is best understood in terms of an emerging labour–capital relation, which establishes a cash nexus between platform and worker as a result of a process of subsumption. This re-theorisation, in turn, helps to understand the rapid emergence of platform worker organisation and resistance, and the similarity of its demands with worker resistance in other, more established areas of paid work under capitalist relations of production.

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Section: Subsumptionmentioning

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Rediscovering the cash nexus, again: Subsumption and the labour–capital relation in platform work

Joyce

2020

Capital & Class

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“…Consider the following: Erik Wright, the analytical Marxist, says: ‘I remain sceptical that a systemic rupture in which capitalism is effectively abolished could result in an emancipatory alternative’ (quoted in Das, 2017a: 58). The post-structuralist Marxist, Spivak asserts: ‘You can agree to the production of capital but restrict it (by common consent) so that it .…”

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“…. becomes a dynamic for social redistribution’ (quoted in Das, 2017a: 103). For Daniel Bensaid (2006): ‘the capital/labour relationship’ is not the ‘main conflict’ since it is one of ‘a series of contradictions’ including ‘gender (or sex) relations’.…”

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“…(6) sees the working class as the most consistent fighter for general democratic rights and specific democratic rights of the specially oppressed and for socialism (see Das, 2017a, chapters 1; 5–8; Das, 2014, chapter 2).…”

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“…MELLT Marxism takes seriously the geographical dimension of society in the form of not only uneven economic development (Harvey, 2006/1982; Smith, 2008/1984) but also uneven and combined development (Davidson, 2006; Trotsky, 2008) existing at multiple geographical scales, without assigning causal primacy to geographical relations over social relations (Das, 2017b). A less developed country and a more developed country are not only unequally developed; inside the less developed country, there are inherited archaic social relations as well as capitalist relations in both their lower and higher forms, including elements of the advanced capitalist economy (Das, 2017, chapter 8; Das, 2020a, chapter 3; Marx, 1977). 30…”

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On the Urgent Need to Re-Engage Classical Marxism

Das

2020

Critical Sociology

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Humankind continues to face the two problems that have existed since the degeneration of the 1917 October Revolution that began in the mid-1920s. While it is experiencing enormous suffering caused by capitalism, there is also a crisis of anti-capitalist leadership. These two problems now cohabit with growing radicalization among sections of the working population and the youth, following the 2007 economic crisis; burgeoning threat of fascistic tendencies both within the state apparatuses and among the masses; and reformism among middle-class Marxist intellectuals (as well as among workers). In this global conjuncture, there is a need to return to the root of the Marxist agenda. This is the classical tradition, which includes the ideas of Marx and Engels and goes beyond their ideas. In this article, I offer an outline of that tradition.

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Classroom as a Site of Class Struggle

J. Das

2023

The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education

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