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One particularly scary aspect of Harvey's argument is, as the quote below shows, that he believes there needs to be different theories and therefore different strategies for different sectors and movements. Or if not that, then, at least implicitly, an insistence on no coherent theory. This is particularly upsetting given the valiant efforts of some theorists and activists to unite theoretically production with social reproduction and thus with struggles against oppression linked in a coherent way with the struggle against exploitation. These efforts unfortunately but predictably face forms of of intersectionality which would be all too happy to ignore the overall dynamic of the system. "My [DH's] objection to any exclusionary productivist interpretation (to cite a matching pejorative characterization!) is that it casts to one side the whole history of creation of wants, needs and desires (let alone the mechanics of ensuring an ability to pay) in the history of capital accumulation. I think we should pay much more attention to this aspect of things. This does not mean I downplay, deny or refute all the work that has been done on the labour process and the importance of the class struggles that have occurred and continue to occur in the sphere of production. But these struggles have to be put in relation to struggles over realization, distribution (e.g. rental extractions, debt foreclosures), social reproduction, the management of the metabolic relation to nature and the free gifts of culture and nature. These have all figured large in recent anti-capitalist movements and I insist that we take them all seriously along with the more traditional focus on the Marxist left favoring class struggle at the point of production as the key moment for struggle. This is why I think the diagram I offer of circulation and the definition of capital as value in motion is so important. Strange to have it all dismissed in the citation from Murray Smith as 'c*ircular reasoning*!'" _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
