Wim Dierckxsens and Andrés Piqueras
The Dialectical Unity of Capital and NonCapital The Role of Overpopulation in Popular Rebellion Today
513 - 524
2013
7
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International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9996939
https://publications.waset.org/vol/74
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Throughout its history, Capital has established a decisive form of discrimination that has effectively strengthened its power against Labor discrimination between an endogenous labor force (integrated, with certain guarantees and rights in the capitalist nexus) and an exogenous labor force (yet to be incorporated or incorporated as ‘heterochthonous’, without such guarantees and rights). We refer to the historical incorporation of the exogenous population from the noncapitalist to the capitalist nexus (with the consequent replaceability of the endogenous labor force) as absolute mobility.
The more possibilities Capital has of accessing a population in the noncapitalist nexus and of being able to incorporate it through absolute mobility into the capitalist nexus, the greater its unilaterality or class domination. In contrast, when these possibilities run dry, Capital is more inclined towards reformism or negotiation.
However, this absolute mobility has historically been combined with relative mobility of the labor force, which includes various processes of which labor force migration is a fundamental component.
This paper holds that both types of mobility are at the core of class struggles.
Open Science Index 74, 2013