Each “consumer” is, while a consumer, simultaneously a producer; a self-producer, producing him or herself through consuming social wealth produced by him or herself and others. The total process, consumption and production taken together, is the process named social reproduction.

The producers can be expected to struggle to make the means of production produce value for them within the production process itself and not merely at its end. That is, they will have demanded that the production process within which they daily live produce a value for them as a daily social life; that it become a process of gratifying social intercourse, self-development, and self-realization. It must “add value” to the use-value of their daily life.

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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/for-ourselves-the-negation-of-the-negation?v=1693388987

#capital #anarchy #socialReproduction #socialUsevalue #economics

Ultimately, the only struggle that matters is the one conducted on the terrain of spontaneous #socialreproduction or, perhaps better, of #hegemony. It takes place across all the institutions wife-murderer Althusser so inaptly called “ideological state apparatuses,” and it concerns how we formulate to begin with all those preferences and desires we think of as organic.

Punching up a section on Alice Lowe’s Prevenge. The most interesting aspect of the film might be that Lowe says she made social reproduction horror because of the lack of support for parents in the film industry.

#Horror
#SocialReproduction