Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon - Work, Power and Political Strategy

How do we integrate the theoretical underpinnings of social reproduction theory (SRT) into our understanding of the social harms inflicted upon us? How can we use it to inform our struggles and affect societal change under capitalism? Integrating our understanding of productive and reproductive spheres and exploring the connection between identity-based oppression and class exploitation, SRT has emerged as a powerful Marxist frame for social analysis and political practice. In this book, Aaron Jaffe extracts SRT's radical potential, relying on recent struggles, including the International Women's Strike and the teachers' strikes, showing how we can use SRT to motivate socialist politics and strategy. Using social reproduction theory to appreciate distinct forms of social domination, this unique and necessary book will have vital strategic implications for anti-capitalists, anti-racists, LGBT activists, disability activists and feminists.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Cinzia Arruzza

Introduction: Why Theorize Social Reproduction?

1. Social Reproduction Theories as Frameworks for Empirical Analysis

2. Power as Potentiality or the Critical Dimension of Labor Power

3. The Question of Immanence and the Social Form of Labor Power

4. The Body and Gender in Social Reproduction Theory

5. Reproducing Intersections and Social Reproduction

6. The Socialist Horizon of Emancipation

7. Social Reproduction Theory and Political Strategy

Postscript

Notes

Index

About the author

Aaron Jaffe is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Liberal Arts at The Juilliard School in New York. His articles have appeared in Comparative Literature and Culture, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and other journals. He has written chapters in The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, and Critical Theories and the Budapest School.

Summary

How can we use Social Reproduction Theory to inform political strategy?

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Jaffe, Jaffe Aaron
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780745340548
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4054-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory; Mapping Social Reproduction Th
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, 21st Century, Political science & theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political science and theory, Social and ethical issues, Feminism and feminist theory, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Marxism & Communism, Pressure groups & lobbying, For higher / tertiary / university education