Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2159742
B. Burke, J. Soileau, Karin Friederic
Brazil’s Amazonian quilombos (communities descended from self-liberated slaves) have formed through grassroots mobilization in the crucible of coloniality, White supremacy, capitalism, and neocolonialism. This essay examines the historical dynamics of racial capitalism in and around Brazil’s quilombos, the diverse economies that have undergirded quilombo world making, and the authors’ attempts to engage in decolonial solidarity as White allies from the Global North. These reflections focus on three strategies that have seemed particularly important for solidarity work: (1) engaging in decolonial dialogues based on listening, responding, and acting to ensure that decolonization is more than a metaphor; (2) building terra firme, a form of institutionalization grounded in quilombo institutions rather than NGO-ization; and (3) operating as a weak current, a form of development practice analogous to J. K. Gibson-Graham’s vision of a “weak theory” that is humble, contingent, and yielding.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2159744
Caroline Shenaz Hossein, S. Bonsu
West African informal collective institutions have much to offer the study of international development. Susu is the local name for a cooperative system involving rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) practiced by millions of people. This essay argues that the Ghana susu are community economies, drawing on J. K. Gibson-Graham’s theory of community economies and its ethical principles for amplifying well-being, conducting ethical business, encountering others, and the joyful commoning of goods. The essay’s primary research was carried out in a community with forty-six susu members, through focus-group discussions and individual interviews in Accra, Tema, Cape Coast, and Kumasi. By acknowledging the susu system, the essay advances ideas of equity and highlights the African contribution to a sustainable economic model. The Ghana susu have a long-standing history of solidarity economics rooted in mutual aid, self-sufficiency, and the collective, and this history should be noted as a powerful antidote to neoliberal development.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2159745
P. Loh
In the last decade, a solidarity-economy movement has emerged in Massachusetts, with desires to fight against the world as it is and build the world as it should be. This orientation toward a postcapitalist economy helps to overcome capitalocentrism and sparks the radical imagination. But in trying to build elements of a solidarity economy, such as worker cooperatives and community land trusts, this movement has encountered contradictions stemming from the growth mindset of a modernist Western ontology that posits the existence of but one singular reality. As the movement now tries to move beyond a postcapitalist economy as the goal and toward creating other worlds and ways of being, it is valuing and intentionally cultivating more relational ways of being, centering solidarity and care in all the ways that we exist in interdependence with one another and with Earth’s living systems. In the solidarity-economy movement, pluralism is an opening to building the pluriverse.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2023.2165868
Deborah Keisch, T. Scott
This essay reflects on the efforts of a group of Lakota land and water protectors to resist the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, within the larger context of the Indigenous sovereignty, land-back, and climate-justice movements across North America. These protectors articulate their struggles by speaking to what Leanne Simpson and others have referred to as a politics of Indigenous “radical resurgence” and by fighting violent and ongoing dispossession through attempts to reject a politics of recognition or sanction from the U.S. settler-colonialist state, an approach that embodies possibility through radical Indigenous thought and practice. The essay documents this antecapitalist epistemology by describing acts of resistance at Rootz Camp over a several-month period. The essay illustrates how such efforts go beyond simply resisting or existing outside of capitalism but rather seek to vision and build an alternative.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2023.2159719
Maliha Safri, Boone W. Shear
This brief essay introduces the “Symposium on Rethinking Postcapitalist Politics: Building Solidarity Against Racialized Extraction” appearing in Rethinking Marxism vol. 35, no. 1. Rather than the last word on postcapitalist politics in the journal, other activists and scholars are invited to build on and respond to the questions raised as a continuing thread of publications.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2159743
Rishika Mukhopadhyay
This essay brings together J. K. Gibson-Graham’s diverse-economies framework and Kalyan Sanyal’s postcolonial capitalist development to unpack the heterogeneous economic processes of clay idol making practice in the Kumartuli neighborhood of Kolkata, India. This craft is rapidly getting transformed through state sanctions and corporate funding. Consequently, scholars have identified this encounter as this craftwork’s exposure to and absorption within capitalism. This essay unconventionally reads the differences within Kumartuli’s seemingly capitalist modes of production to make legible the absence of alternative discourses, thereby teasing out regimes of enterprises, coexisting class processes, and noncapitalist labor relations within a wage-labor setup. The paper examines the financial sector's sponsorship and the postcolonial state's development-driven governmentality, yet at the same time, identifies how they do not fully enroll the sector within capitalist production logic. Craft workers’ and women owner-artisans’ mundane counterhegemonic politics, which claims socio-economic justice, is seen as disrupting the processes of the accumulation economy.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2159718
Archer Buissink
Central to the increasing digitization of contemporary capitalism are platforms such as Twitter, Uber, and Amazon. Utilizing large amounts of data and the internet’s global network, digital platforms allow for connection between users, workers, suppliers, employers, and other economic or social actors. Using Marx’s triadic conception of the machine from chapter 15 of Capital, “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry,” this essay highlights how the digital platform can be viewed as a machine system of the twenty-first century once technological changes are accounted for. Key to the digital platform as a machine system is its transmitting mechanism, the algorithm. The algorithm allows the central driving force, the technology firm, to regulate gig or click-work labor processes that take place on the platform. This framework provides a clearer positioning of the digital platform within the capitalist mode of production.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2127726
R. Mcintyre
This essay traces the development of the phrase “democratic socialism” from the early nineteenth century to the present, especially in relation to “social democracy” and “communism.” These meanings have changed over time, with democratic socialism and social democracy indicating the opposite of what they meant a century ago when social democracy was the more and democratic socialism the less radical position. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the decline of the post–World War II social-democratic compromise created space for a radical democratic socialism to flourish in our time. Twenty-first-century democratic socialism seeks to democratize the workplace and reorient the state, against the power of the organized capitalist class, to serve the needs of the many rather than the desires of the few.
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