The Dig: Beyond Economism with Nancy Fraser [From the archives]
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🗓️ 9 May 2020
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Dan is playing catch up. Here's a fav interview from the archives: critical theorist Nancy Fraser on how a total analysis of capitalism requires analyzing capitalism's totality, including socially reproductive work that makes possible the world that capitalism exploits. This is painfully relevant today as people everywhere do the work of staying at home and social distancing to beat this pandemic while capitalists reap the rewards of the world's reproduction.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig was brought to you by our listeners at patreon.com and by Haymarket books |
| 0:07.6 | Which is hosting a series of events regarding the political response to the coronavirus crisis that might be perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:17.0 | The coronavirus crisis, like all others, is unevenly felt, those at the receiving end of exploitation and |
| 0:25.6 | oppression under conditions of capitalist normality also bear the brunt of |
| 0:30.8 | social, economic, and health impacts of the virus. |
| 0:35.0 | Hemarket books is determined to offer a political response to the crisis, |
| 0:41.0 | believing that their mission to support struggles for social and economic |
| 0:44.5 | justice is more vital than ever. |
| 0:47.9 | In collaboration with their authors and a range of partners, Haymarket is organizing an ongoing series of events to allow us to respond |
| 0:56.4 | both to the coronavirus crisis itself and to maintain our collective political, cultural, and social life in a manner that fosters struggle, solidarity, and debate. |
| 1:12.0 | Sign up for scheduled events over at the Haymarket Books YouTube channel |
| 1:17.0 | to make sure that you don't miss future events. I must confess that I am simply stretched too thin and super beat and cannot post a new episode this week. It happens. |
| 1:37.0 | But we have tons of incredible stuff coming up including our very special and fancy |
| 1:44.4 | narrative series on life and politics under COVID. And today I'm replaying |
| 1:49.8 | one of my favorite interviews of all time from the archive. |
| 1:54.3 | Legendary critical theorists Nancy Frazier on why Marxism requires a total analysis of capitalism |
| 2:01.1 | that encompasses the totality of the system that we live in and under beyond a narrowly |
| 2:08.0 | economic conception. Throughout its history capitalism has been defined not just by labor exploitation, but also by the disavowal of that exploitation's own basic conditions of possibility, things like socially reproductive labor done in the home. |
| 2:27.2 | This has never been more clear than today, as the pandemic has privatized child care and education work back |
| 2:36.4 | inside the home even as parents must continue to work for a wage or to seek new work in order to stave off hunger and destitution. |
| 2:46.0 | Parents are now at home doing productive and more reproductive labor with minimal to no aid, |
| 2:53.6 | including parents who are suffering from COVID-19. |
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