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Unthinking Capital : Conceptual and Terminological Landmarks
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In this article I take issues with some Eurocentric limits of the two contradictions of capital: capital/labour and capital/nature. These limits are exposed by elaborating on two theoretical insights from researches in critical race studies and indigenous political ecologies: respectively thingification and uncommon . These insights produce a tension between colonialism and capitalism, which calls for a post-Eurocentric process of concept formation. This reconceptualization of capital is pursued through the notion of muri , which the Japanese thinker Uno Kōzō deployed to designate a bold non-western pathway to reading Capital . The article elaborates and formulates three conceptual and terminological landmarks to unthinking capital for a global social theory.
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“In a capitalist economy, workers and consumers are destined to develop a 'false consciousness' because their consciousness is imposed on them by the hegemonic ideology of the capitalist ruling classes who collect the fruits of both their capital and the workers' labor (Ascione, 2017; Sklair, 1997; Walby, 2015).”
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“'False consciousness' renders workers and consumers powerless in effectuating post-capitalist transformations.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ascione, G.
- Affiliations
- Independent Researcher, Italy
- Corresponding author
- Ascione, Gennaro
- ORCID
- Ascione, Gennaro
- Venue
- Sociology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2017-02
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 162-180
- ISSN
- 0038-0385 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8684
- OpenAlex
- W2585907203
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 1.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Sociology (publishedVersion)
- ARCHIVIO ISTITUZIONALE DELLA RICERCA-UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI "LORIENTALE" (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Economy and Marxism
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Marxism and Critical Theory
- Keywords
- capital, Eurocentrism, thingification, critical race studies, colonialism, capitalism, Muri, concept formation
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