Shaw, IGR orcid.org/0000-0002-4289-1740 and Waterstone, M (2021) A Planet of Surplus Life: Building Worlds Beyond Capitalism. Antipode: a radical journal of geography, 53 (6). pp. 1787-1806. ISSN 0066-4812
Abstract
Capitalism is an immense machine for churning out surplus life. Its long war of enclosure has captured, controlled, and pauperised human life, and laid waste to nonhuman life. This paper argues that surplus populations—people rendered as economically redundant—are central to the future politics of our planet. Yet the ruling classes still fight to preserve capitalism in all its horror: “you must work, even if there are no jobs!” How we diagnose this dilemma is a vital task of our age. We respond with a beyond-capitalist politics that challenges centuries of capitalist world-alienation, pauperism, and indignity. We present a radical alternative, centred on the interlocking ideas of alter-worlds, alter-work, and alter-politics. Each is based on building, sustaining, and connecting new spaces of geographic justice and autonomy for all. We must make the end of capitalism easier to imagine than the end of the world.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Antipode published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Antipode Foundation Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | surplus populations; capitalism; wageless life; politics; Marx; justice |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 May 2021 10:07 |
Last Modified: | 17 May 2023 00:33 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/anti.12741 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:173646 |
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