scholarly journals Reflexões sobre consumo consciente à luz do binômio cultura e ideologia / Reflections on conscious consumption in the light of the binomial culture and ideology

Profanações ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Fábio Rodrigues Alves ◽  
Dulce Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
Television Advertisements ◽  
Communication Equipment ◽  
Scientific Sense ◽  
Mode Of Production

O eixo em torno do qual gira esta pesquisa, é um argumento que pode contrariar o senso comum e mesmo parte do senso científico. A pesquisa, desenvolvido a partir de conceitos marxistas, parte do desígnio de que a produção, impulsionada pelo modo de produção capitalista, e não o consumo, é a responsável pela devastação ambiental. Nesse diapasão, acreditamos que não se deve responsabilizar apenas o consumidor pelos problemas ambientais hodiernos, haja vista que empresários capitalistas se abrigam sob um véu eco-ideológico, lastreado no modo de produção capitalista. Ademais, o consumidor, como elo de uma cadeia inflexível de produção e reprodução, apenas cumpre seu papel e realiza o ato do consumo. Nesse desiderato, a produção cria as mercadorias que se tornarão necessidades para os consumidores, devidamente agraciadas com o seu próprio fetiche. Ainda, visando à divulgação e/ou impulsionamento das vendas das mercadorias produzidas, os empresários contratam os mais criativos publicitários, e por meio daquele sagrado equipamento de comunicação, a televisão, as propagandas televisivas, mesclam cultura e ideologia, e tornam o consumo um ato cultuado na sociedade capitalista.AbstractThe axis around which turns this research, is an argument that might contradict common sense and even part of the scientific sense. The research, developed from Marxist concepts of the design of the production, driven by the capitalist mode of production, not consumption, is responsible for environmental devastation. In this vein, we believe that we should not just blame the consumer by modern environmental problems, given that capitalist entrepreneurs take shelter under an eco-ideological veil, backed the capitalist mode of production. Moreover, the consumer, as a link in an inflexible chain of production and reproduction, only fulfills its role and performs the act of consumption. In this goal, the production creates goods that will become needs for consumers, duly honored with his own fetish. Still, in order to disclose and / or boosting sales of goods produced, entrepreneurs hire the best advertising creative, and through that sacred communication equipment, television, television advertisements, mix culture and ideology, and make the consumer an act worshiped in capitalist society.

From Challenging the Text to Constructing It in a Large Economics Classroom: Revealing the Not-So-Common Sense of the Capitalist Mode of Production

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Spotton Visano
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Large Class ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Resource Distribution ◽  
Capital Good ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Group Exercise ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
Mode Of Production

This paper recounts a large class teaching process designed to encourage student critique, debate, and engagement. It focuses on an example of one in-class, small group exercise of negotiating ownership claims on a capital good and its output. The communal outcomes that students themselves negotiate contradict their prior taken-for-granted belief in the “rightness” of the capitalist mode of production and offer the class an opportunity to reflect on principles of fairness in resource distribution. JEL Classification: A13, A22, B51

Reading Capital, Reading Historical Capitalisms

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Samir Amin
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Mode Of Production

Marx's Capital presents a rigorous scientific analysis of the capitalist mode of production and capitalist society, and how they differ from earlier forms. Volume 1 delves into the heart of the problem. It directly clarifies the meaning of the generalization of commodity exchanges between private property owners (and this characteristic is unique to the modern world of capitalism, even if commodity exchanges had existed earlier), specifically the emergence and dominance of value and abstract social labor.… Volume 2 demonstrates why and how capital accumulation functions, more specifically, why and how accumulation successfully integrates the exploitation of labor in its reproduction and overcomes the effects of the social contradiction that it represents.… Volume 3 of Capital is different. Here Marx moves from the analysis of capitalism in its fundamental aspects (its "ideal average") to that of the historical reality of capitalism.… To move from the reading of Capital (and particularly of volumes 1 and 2) to that of historical capitalisms at successive moments of their deployment has its own requirements, even beyond reading all of Marx and Engels.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

The Compatibility of Freedom and Necessity in Marx’s Idea of Communist Society

2021 ◽  
pp. 162-191
Author(s):  
David James
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Communist Society ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
The Social ◽  
Practical Necessity ◽  
Historical Necessity ◽  
Mode Of Production

It is argued that the manner in which workers organize production and determine its goals explains how freedom and necessity are reconciled in Marx’s idea of communist society. Freedom and necessity are reconciled, moreover, in such a way that both self-realization and engagement in activities that possess some intrinsic value become possible, whereas this is not the case for workers in capitalist society. Communist society is explained in terms of a concept of freedom that incorporates three distinct types of freedom, whereas this concept of freedom is incompatible with the constraints generated by the capitalist mode of production and the social relations that emerge on its basis. The theme of how historical materialism is committed to the idea of historical necessity and seeks to explain this necessity in terms of practical necessity is then introduced.

Countering corporate violence: Degrowth, ecosocialism and organising beyond the destructive forces of capitalism

Organization ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 135050842097534
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya ◽  
Alexander Paulsson
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Economic Expansion ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
Social Metabolism ◽  
Material Interest ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Mode Of Production

Corporate violence is a form of organised violence motivated or caused by material interest, profit-seeking or economic expansion. It is inflicted on human beings or ecosystems. Complementing a Marxist theoretical frame with literature on ecosocialism and degrowth, we examine how corporate violence is inherent to and has been consistently encouraged by the capitalist mode of production. By drawing on the concepts of primitive accumulation and social metabolism, we visibilise how such violence is manifested within the productive forces of capitalism – natural resources, labour, technology and money. Corporate violence, we argue, may only be countered in a post-capitalist society where the productive forces are radically transformed. We build on degrowth principles to articulate how corporate violence may be countered and how post-growth organising of productive forces may look.

scholarly journals Pobreza e desigualdade social: fundamentos sociais e históricos | Poverty and social inequality: social and historical foundations

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (41) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciene Ferreira Mendes de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Structural Aspects ◽  
Mode Of Production

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo a análise da pobreza e desigualdade social na sociedade capitalista contemporânea, demonstrando os seus aspectos estruturais, considerados a partir da lógica de reprodução do capital. Apresenta uma análise crítica e histórica acerca da pobreza e da desigualdade social, fundamentada no método materialista dialético elaborado por Karl Marx. Nesse sentido, compreende os processos históricos a partir dos modos de produção social, ou seja, da forma como os homens se organizam para produzir os bens necessários à satisfação de suas necessidades, sendo, portanto, o trabalho humano uma categoria central. Inicialmente, apresentam-se as formas de organização societária pré-capitalistas, determinadas pelo primitivismo, escravismo e feudalismo, a fim de evidenciar que a pobreza e a desigualdade social são construções sociais e históricas e nesse sentido, compreender os percursos trilhados para se chegar ao momento atual. Em seguida, evidencia-se o modo de produção capitalista, demonstrando que a pobreza e a desigualdade social são inerentes à lógica da acumulação, portanto são geradas e não dadas naturalmente. Palavras-chave: Pobreza; Desigualdade Social; Trabalho; Capitalismo.  Abstract — The present work has the objective of analyzing poverty and social inequality in contemporary capitalist society, demonstrating its structural aspects, considered from the logic of reproduction of capital. It presents a critical and historical analysis of poverty and social inequality, based on the dialectical materialist method elaborated by Karl Marx. In this sense, it understands historical processes from the modes of social production, that is, from the way men organize themselves to produce the goods necessary to satisfy their needs, and therefore, human work is a central category. Initially, the pre-capitalist forms of societal organization, determined by primitivism, slavery and feudalism, are presented in order to show that poverty and social inequality are social and historical constructions and, in this sense, to understand the current moment. Next, the capitalist mode of production is shown, demonstrating that poverty and social inequality are inherent in the logic of accumulation, so they are generated and not given naturally.Keywords: Poverty; Social inequality; Work; Capitalism.

scholarly journals Die Außenansicht der europäischen Linken

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (92) ◽  
pp. 427-449
Author(s):  
Samir Amin
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
World System ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
System Type ◽  
World Level ◽  
First World ◽  
Labour Power ◽  
Mode Of Production

In the framework of a world-system type of analysis, the perspectives of the European left after the decline of Soviel type socialism are described as a response to the polarization between the Third and the First World: In contrast to the capitalist mode of production in the centre, which operates as a market-based integration of the circulation of capital, of commodities and of labour power, labour in the periphery is blocked. In view of the contradiction between capital accumulation on a world-level and political and social governance on national levels, a socialist strategy should be based on a new internationalism, emphasizing regional alliances whose expansion is coupled to the increase in the unfettered mobility of labour.

scholarly journals The socio-economic situation of the landowner peasants after the peasant reform in Georgia (the last quarter of the 19th - the early 20th century)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Almas Musa Kizi Ismailova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
South Caucasus ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The One ◽  
Mode Of Production ◽  
Means Of Production

The article analyses the main provisions of the peasant reform in Georgia, which had a further impact on the socio-economic development of the landowner peasants of Tiflis and Kutaisi provinces in the last quarter of the 19th – the early 20th centuries. On the basis of archival sources and literature, the author considers the reasons for the difficult economic situation of the Georgian landowners in the period under study. An analysis makes it possible to conclude that the socio-economic relations that had been formed in Georgia determined the contradictions inherent in the capitalist mode of management. On the one hand, the peasant reform contributed to the more rapid development of the capitalist mode of production in the countryside, laying the foundation for economic development in agriculture, the introduction of commercial agriculture, the growth of agricultural productivity, and the maturation of commodity-capitalist relations. On the other hand, the main means of production were in the hands of the landlords, which led to an even greater extensive impoverishment of the landlord peasants. Thus, in Georgia, the remnants of serfdom survived even longer than in the European provinces of the Russian Empire. It is concluded that the reason for these remnants included the backwardness and relatively weak development of capitalist relations in the South Caucasus, in particular, in Georgia.

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