Accumulation and Subjectivity: Rethinking Marx in Latin America

346 Pages·2022·2.557 MB·English

by  Karen Benezra (editor)

ACCUMULATION AND SUBJECTIVITY

Accumulation
and
RETHINKING MARX IN LATIN AMERICA
Subjectivity
KAREN BENEZRA
EDITED BY
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Names: Benezra, Karen, 1982- editor.
Title: Accumulation and subjectivity : rethinking Marx in Latin Amer-
ica / edited by Karen Benezra.
Description: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2022] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021054871 (print) | LCCN 2021054872 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781438487571 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781438487588 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Marxian economics—Latin America. | Saving and
investment—Latin America. | Mass media—Latin America. | Sub-
jectivity. | LCGFT: Essays.
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Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | ix
INTRODUCTION | 1
Rethinking Marx in Latin America Karen Benezra
PART I. PROPERTY AND HISTORY
CHAPTER ONE | 27
On Subsumption as Form and the Use of Asynchronies
Massimiliano Tomba
CHAPTER TWO | 45
“I am he”: A History of Dispossession’s Not-Yet-Present
in Colonial Yucatán David Kazanjian
CHAPTER THREE | 67
Latin American Marxism: History and Accumulation
Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott
CHAPTER FOUR | 91
Accumulation as Total Conversion Karen Benezra
PART II. CLASS AND TOTALITY
CHAPTER FIVE | 117
José Aricó and the Concept of Socioeconomic Formation
Marcelo Starcenbaum
CHAPTER SIX | 137
An Irresolvable Tension: The Part or the Whole?
The Effects of the “Crisis of Marxism” in the Work of
René Zavaleta Mercado Jaime Ortega Reyna
CHAPTER SEVEN | 155
Class and Accumulation Pablo Pérez Wilson
PART III. SOVEREIGNTY AND DEBT
CHAPTER EIGHT | 175
The “Insurgent Subject” versus Accumulation by Dispossession in
Álvaro García Linera and Jorge Sanjinés Irina Alexandra Feldman
CHAPTER NINE | 195
Debt, Violence, and Subjectivity Alessandro Fornazzari
CHAPTER TEN | 215
Psychotic Violence: Crime and Consumption in
the Apocalyptic Phase of Capitalism Horacio Legrás
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 233
Postmigrancy: Borders, Primitive Accumulation,
and Labor at the U.S./Mexico Border Abraham Acosta
PART IV. THE SUBJECT AND NATURE
CHAPTER TWELVE | 255
Marx’s Theory of the Subject Bruno Bosteels
CHAPTER THIIRTEEN | 275
The Impasses of Environmentalism: Subjectivity and Accumulation
in the World-Ecology Project Orlando Bentancor
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | 295
“Non-Capital” and the Torsion of the Subject Gavin Walker
CONTRIBUTORS | 315
INDEX | 317
List of Illustrations
FIGURE 8.1 | 185
Still from Insurgentes. Bartolina Sisa and Tupaj Katari on the streets
of La Paz. Courtesy of Grupo UKAMAU and Jorge Sanjinés.
FIGURE 8.2 | 187
Still from Insurgentes. Evo Morales in the newly built La PazEl
Alto Cableway. Courtesy of Grupo UKAMAU and Jorge Sanjinés.
FIGURE 8.3 | 187
Still from Insurgentes. Tupaj Katari and Bartolina Sisa ride the
La Paz-El Alto Calbeway. Courtesy of Grupo UKAMAU and Jorge Sanjinés.
FIGURE 8.4 | 188
Still from Insurgentes. Zárate Willka rides the La Paz-El Alto
Cableway. Courtesy of Grupo UKAMAU and Jorge Sanjinés.
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Acknowledgments
An earlier version of chapter 1, “On Subsumption as Form and the Use of
Asynchronies,” by Massimiliano Tomba, was previously published in Review
(Fernand Braudel Center) 38, no. 4 (2019).
An earlier version of chapter 4, “Accumulation as Total Conversion,” by
Karen Benezra, was previously published in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
55, no. 2 (2021).
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