Class Struggle and Social Movement: Totality, Production, and Social Reproduction
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-29

A lecture by Jeffery R. Webber reviewing international class struggles from the last few decades and examining a series of conceptual issues: capitalism and capitalist totality; processual and historical understandings of class struggle; the collective action repertoires of strike & riot, and their relationship to different periods of capitalism; and how class struggle necessarily spans the spheres of production, reproduction, and social reproduction.

This event was co-sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS) Program at UW-Madison.

Jeffery R. Webber is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He sits on the editorial board of Historical Materialism and is the author of The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left (Haymarket 2017), Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America, with Todd Gordon (Fernwood, 2016), Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia (Haymarket 2012), and From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia: Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales (Haymarket 2011).