{"id":1289,"date":"2017-03-04T17:06:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/log\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2018-09-28T15:40:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:40:59","slug":"20170304-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/20170304-2\/","title":{"rendered":"20170304"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tibor Rutar&#8217;s text\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2017\/03\/debate-postcolonial-theory-review-chibber-subaltern\/\">The Specter of Materialism<\/a>\u00a0offers an indepth analysis of Vivek Chibber\u2019s book\u00a0<i>Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital <\/i>(2013)<i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Marxists claim their\u00a0conceptual tools\u00a0apply across the capitalist world, they\u2019re highlighting a small set of basic properties that are operative in any capitalist society, including the profit motive, wage labor, and competition. How these properties express themselves or what sociocultural dynamics exist alongside and shape them remains open \u2014 a problem to which Marxism isn\u2019t at all blind.<\/p>\n<p>By realigning Marxism with its materialist roots, Chibber places human action not only at the center of capitalism but also at the heart of resistance.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] Marxism views people as having both minds and bodies and that people\u2019s minds are fundamentally embodied. This foregrounds humanity\u2019s biological endowments \u2014 the capacity for self-awareness, intentionality, reflexivity, and rationality as well as the need for material well-being, meaningful activity, and personal autonomy.<br \/>\nIn short, the materialism in\u00a0historical materialism\u00a0meant that, alongside historical conditioning, alongside social structures that enable, constrain, and motivate human activity, nature also plays a causal role.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00a0If people were nothing but &#8216;infinitely malleable&#8217; sociocultural constructs, they\u2019d simply internalize the prevailing ideology \u2014 not question, challenge, and subvert it. It is precisely because people aren\u2019t &#8216;infinitely malleable&#8217; that oppressive sociocultural practices affect, frustrate, and hurt them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tibor Rutar&#8217;s text\u00a0The Specter of Materialism\u00a0offers an indepth analysis of Vivek Chibber\u2019s book\u00a0Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[96,295,296],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-log","tag-96","tag-tibor-rutar","tag-vivek-chibber"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}