What gives current capitalism its indestructible appearance is the way in which it was able to combine different heterogeneous factors for its own benefit.
It could be said that it was in post-Fordist capitalism that this reality became definitively effective.
Let’s note a few points in passing:
1) Capitalism is no longer reproduced only by the exploitation of the labor force and the extraction of the surplus. Now there are vast sectors that live disassociated from conventional jobs but that nevertheless are integrated with poverty on their shoulders in the logic of the “consumed consumer”.
2) The capital–war connection where within the conflicts between nations the concentrated capitals continue their business
3) The exodus or if you want to use a stronger term, the “desertion” by large segments of the world’s population from politics. Including in this different types of leaks to supposedly less demanding places with performance imperatives.
4) The neoliberal turn of capitalism, where the universal character of the law is destroyed with lawfare and parallel worlds are manufactured with fake ones.
5) The definitive entry of algorithms and artificial intelligence in the financialization of indebted lives.
6) The impossibility of constituting a historical subject due to the evident fragmentation of the social. Although sectoral struggles may emerge, they are not articulated in the indispensable condition that a common project always demands.
7) The capacity of capitalism with its so-called “creative destruction”, which can devastate a people, bankrupt a nation and from this, and despite that, generate new devices for the reproduction of capital.
Capitalism, like the death drive, knows no interruptions, nor elements that can regulate it for a long time. It can be made to coincide with the death drive since its ultimate goal is to exterminate life on the planet.
For these reasons and others that have not been named, the duty of national and popular movements, feminisms and the new left, is to know how to politically translate the new events against the oppressors, and it does not matter that the aftermath of capitalism cannot be named. .
Socialism and Communism were very important historical names in the 20th century. Now it is about saving humanity from disaster or testing whether there is still time for it.
The name that would correspond to after capitalism remains in suspense and unnamed.
It is the true historical uncertainty, perhaps what can be called another society other than capitalism comes, for the first time, from those countries outside the center.
