Is politics possible today?

Abstract

This text is an attempt to bring together some scattered notes to think about social reproduction as a general perspective and not as a set of sectors or tasks. This becomes possible based on understanding recent feminist struggles also as a challenge to their sectoral confinement and epistemic marginalization. The perspective of social reproduction has been generalized in recent years thanks to a political comprehension of its centrality, similar to what happened in the 1970s. The pandemic was, in turn, the confirmation and an attempt to deny that centrality. The political centrality that social reproduction has achieve, the re-emergence of this “idea-force,” is not only an academic debate, and even less a technical one: it refers to characteristics that contemporary feminist struggles have addressed and confronted, with the capacity to make the accurate diagnoses of forms of exploitation, domination, and violence of contemporary capitalism.