Riot, Strike, Commune: Gendering a Civil War

Clover Joshua ()
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Clover Joshua: University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616-5270, USA

New Global Studies, 2020, vol. 14, issue 2, 121-131

Abstract: This article departs from Joshua Clover’s historical and theoretical schema that locates riots and strikes within the categories of circulation and production struggles, moving from the categories of capital’s reproduction to the reproduction of the proletariat. Here it offers the commune as the exemplary form of the category of reproduction struggle. The commune is understood not as an intentional community of withdrawal but as something like counter-reproduction, able not just to reproduce itself but to strike at capital as an antagonistic force — striking at the vital exposure of an increasingly circulation-centered capitalism. Crucial examples are encampments against extractive capital such as Standing Rock or the ZAD. The article shows how political sovereignty and economic circulation are entirely entangled, pointing to the ways that social movements have looked upon them as separate domains. Therefore, the commune is a process at the crux of the political and the economic, overcoming the tendency to prefer one or the other. Finally, the article discusses the gendered aspect of the sphere of reproduction that makes possible the double confrontation of counter-reproduction.

Keywords: strikes; riots; gender studies; Marxism; commune (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2020-0014

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