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oai:doaj.org/article:7a4a206408ff452f9e580aef111fedbe

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10.15366/relacionesinternacionales2021.47.001

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From a very low cost to the great implosion. Class, climate and the Great Border

Abstract

This article links two major historical and global events: the rise of capitalism after 1492 and its current epocal crisis at the end of Holocene. The author argues that the endless accumulation of capital has, from the outset, been made possible by the earth’s endless conquest: the Great Frontier. The ecology-capitalist world is a unique type of class society that combines monetary accumulation with exceptionally rapid appropriation of human and global work. The Great Frontier is the Barata nature area, bringing together, dialectically, the valorisation of capital and the devalorisation of human and other nature in the ethical and political spheres. Thus, racism, sexism and promising development reveal fundamental ideological pillars of capital accumulation. Crucially, the Great Border has enabled imperialist burguesships to advance labour productivity, reduce input costs and solve recurrent crises of overaccumulation of capitalism. Today, we are witnessing the geohistorical investment of the Barata nature strategy of capitalism. It is about the transition from the network of life as a dynamic of reducing costs and increasing productivity to one of maximising costs and reducing productivity. The dominant class and Marxiist economists have understood their first signs as the ‘Great Statre’. But this is only the beginning; we could call it a “signalling crisis”. The Great stalemate indicates the early moments of the Great implosion. Just as climate change is understood as a non-linear process that confuses biosphere models, the Great implosion is a non-linear dynamic through which contradictions of capitalism in the life network confuse linear models of historical change. Capitalism, in the face of this landscape, is much more vulnerable than we believe, and above all it is vulnerable to the uprising that the proletarised Planetario is coping on a slow fire.

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