Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What Is to Be Done Under Real Subsumption?.

[Place of publication not identified] : Minor Compositions, 2026.

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"When capitalism feels inescapable, theory becomes a weapon to challenge fatalistic totalities. This book explores the limits of the colonization of everyday life by economic logic gone mad. Wherever we are we find ourselves choking, trapped in a world built against us we feel we don't belong to. A world that is going down the drain. Unable to stop this process as if history has surpassed us, we seem to have missed our opportunity to take hold of the future. We must ask ourselves: why are fatalistic and totalising narratives so prevalent in our times? What would it take to work against fear, to restore a sense of agency and critical comprehension over capitalism's runaway processes? By tracing and uncovering the subterranean history of the Marxist concept of subsumption within the French ultraleft, Operaismo, the Frankfurt School and Mexican movements, as well as through heated debates within communist circles in the last decade, Abolishing Capitalist Totality offers a profound and critical inquiry into what we understand by capitalist totality and its dominating powers. It addresses radical forms of antagonism: the self-abolition of the proletariat, of gender and race, and explores how these relate to other forms of abolition, thereby opening possibilities for new alliances and constellations. As an integral aspect of interrogating and reorganising the form of the book, poets and artists have been invited to challenge what we perceive as the totality of this book by intervening into its conventions. Our hope is that readers will be able to grasp not only the concepts presented in the book but also its form, in a multifaceted and engaged manner. What has been perceived in recent years as an enclosed capitalist totality is, in fact, composed of concrete processes that we can act upon: how we understand capitalism determines how we abolish capital."-- provided by distributor.

Historical materialism.
Sociology.
Matérialisme historique.
Sociologie.
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Ahmad, Aziza, contributor.
Ali, Nadia Bou, contributor.
Bonney, Sean, contributor.
Boyer, Anne, contributor.
Brassier, Ray, contributor.
Brehmer, Noah, proofreader.
Bremner, David, proofreader.
Chitu, Andrei, contributor.
Choi, Loss, contributor.
Corna, Luisa Lorenza, contributor.
Corriente, Federico, contributor.
Echeverría, Bolívar, contributor.
Gray, Neil, contributor.
Hayward, Danny, contributor.
Hedditch, Em, contributor.
Iles, Anthony, editor, contributor.
Jeschke, Lisa, contributor.
Kahir, Sacha, contributor.
Khazrik, Jessika, contributor.
Kotouza, Dimitra, contributor.
Lucas, Rob, contributor.
Sicilia, Andrés Saenz De, contributor.
Simon, Roland, contributor.
Slater, Howard, proofreader.
Vishmidt, Marina, contributor, proofreader.
Endnotes, contributor.
Library Stack, distributor.
Mattin, editor, contributor.
Négation, contributor.
Théorie Communiste, contributor.