Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The Lonely Anti-RacistBroadly speaking, we seem to be confronting two major threats today.On the one hand, there is the confluence of capitalism and science, which, in a way made obvious during the pandemic, has foregrounded biological and medical interventions.On the other hand, there has been an attempt to reinstate patriarchal authority, indexed most obviously by the rise of neo-fascism.The danger is to presume that these are distinct and opposing threats.It seems to me that the latter is a problematic response to a truth made more obvious by the former: neo-fascism exists within the context of an erosion of social bonds (whereby commodities provide fleeting and unsustainable social links).The problem is that pragmatic capitalism is presented as the alternative to totalitarianism (but always from a disavowed universal position).This leads to a rather unsettling conclusion: the critical task is not to seek out alternatives to capitalism but rather to recognize that capitalism is the alternative.
Author: Rousselle, Duane
Institutions: Aga Khan University, Aga Khan University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7067622177
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