The Capitalist State as Constitutive of Capitalist Class Relation: Class Exploitation and Political Oppression

2017 ◽  
pp. 391-414
Keyword(s):  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Class Relation ◽  
Capitalist State

Donald Trump: The unanticipated apotheosis of neoliberalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 108-116
Author(s):  
Tithi Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
The Political ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Unitary Approach ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Political Category ◽  
White Working Class

Donald Trump’s election and subsequent presidency reveal important contradictions between the workings of the capitalist state and the capitalist class. While Trump may not have been the choice of the capitalist class, he is now in charge of the capitalist state. Within the context of this contradiction the essay explores the political category of the “white working class” and whether this class was a contributive factor in this unexpected electoral victory for Trump. It concludes by drawing attention to the unhelpful political and analytical fragmentation between exploitation (class) and oppression (gender, race, sexuality) under neoliberalism and urges a more unitary approach.

Resisting workers’ disalienation: The making and survival of capitalist conservation in Niombato, Senegal

2020 ◽  
pp. 251484862096040
Author(s):  
Rocío Hiraldo
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Class Relation ◽  
Labour Exploitation ◽  
Service Projects ◽  
The Creation

The making and survival of capitalist conservation depends upon the creation and maintenance of contradictory class relations based on alienated labour. The literature has, however, often ignored this aspect. Looking at capital as a contradictory class relation and through the study of a tourism-oriented protected area and three reforestation payment for ecosystem service projects in Senegal, this article shows how capital’s instrumentalisation of conservation requires a constant adaption to workers’ struggles against alienation. In the case here analysed, this adaptation manifests in the avoidance, silencing and appropriation of workers’ mobilisations against forest privatisation and labour exploitation. This resistance to workers’ disalienation reinforces not only capitalist class relations but also state, neo-colonial and white people’s power.

scholarly journals Why Transnational Class and State? A Response to Ian Taylor

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Morten Ougaard
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Compelling Evidence ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Transnational Relations ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Relations Of Power

Ian Taylor challenges the concepts of a transnational capitalist class (TCC) and state, suggesting that Poulantzas’s notion of the “internal bourgeoisie” is a better theoretical starting point for the analysis of transnational class formation and that the transnational state (TNS) is a step too far. This critique is not convincing. It is debatable to what extent it is a “Poulantzian reading.” The rejection of the notion of a TCC is unsustainable because of compelling evidence for the existence of such a class with articulated shared interests and organizations tasked with pursuing them. The critique of the TNS has some validity, but largely because proponents of the concept have been insufficiently clear on the consequences of upscaling the state concept to the global level. When this is acknowledged, the relevance and usefulness of the concept is that it enables state theoretical analysis of demonstrably existing TNS apparatuses that perform TNS functions, shaped by transnational relations of power between social forces, involving both structural power and direct engagement in transnational sites of contestation. There are now transnational elements of all fundamental characteristics of the capitalist state except one, the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. Finally, Taylor does not provide an alternative approach to theorizing what descriptively is known as global governance.

Teachers’ Unions, the Capitalist State and the Contradictions of Educational Reform

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Alberto Torres ◽  
Daniel Schugurensky ◽  
Seewha Cho ◽  
Jerry Kachur ◽  
Aurora Loyo Brambila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Reform ◽  
Teachers Unions ◽  
Capitalist State

The State as an Actor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Menz
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Regulatory Capture ◽  
Banking Institutions ◽  
Political Left ◽  
Central Actor ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Despite the state being such a central actor in establishing and policing the rules of the game of any given political economy, its role is often neglected. In this chapter, we briefly review relevant state theories and explore changes to the nature and appearance of the capitalist state. The awesome increase in the political fire power of the financial service sector has unfortunately led to regulatory capture. The state can no longer be considered a neutral umpire, being heavily influenced by the prerogatives of major banking institutions. This state of affairs corrupts the hopes that liberals place in the self-policing powers of the marketplace and reflects certain fears on the political left regarding the pernicious effects of ‘financialization’.

Socialism and Socialist Intellectuals in French History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Wright
Keyword(s):  
French History ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Socialist Movement ◽  
Relationship Of

This chapter sets out the specific historiographical basis for a new study of the French socialist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that one particular framework—that of the reluctant relationship of socialism with power in the capitalist state—has dominated our approaches to writing the history of French socialism, and suggests that a new focus on temporalities, particularly exploring the clash between revolutionary, future-focused socialism, and present-minded socialism, opens up a new range of cultural, intellectual, and biographical sources for understanding the French socialist movement. It provides the specific intellectual context for understanding how historians in France today are seeking to rethink their intellectual inheritance from left-wing writers of earlier generations.

The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Global City ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Historical Antecedents

This handbook provides an overview of the emerging field of global studies. Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been reshaping the modern world, and an array of new scholarship has risen to make sense of it in its various transnational manifestations—including economic, social, cultural, ideological, technological, environmental, and in new communications. The chapters discuss various aspects in the field through a broad range of approaches. Several chapters focus on the emergence of the field and its historical antecedents. Other chapters explore analytic and conceptual approaches to teaching and research in global studies. The largest section deals with the subject matter of global studies—challenges from diasporas and pandemics to the global city and the emergence of a transnational capitalist class. The final two sections feature chapters that take a critical view of globalization from diverse perspectives and essays on global citizenship—the ideas and institutions that guide an emerging global civil society. This handbook focuses on global studies more than on the phenomenon of globalization itself, although the various aspects of globalization are central to understanding how the field is currently being shaped.

A division of the capitalist class and the market for money capital

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-21
Author(s):  
Hyun Woong Park
Keyword(s):  
Capitalist Class
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