Repleto de crises e injustiças estruturais: a nova crítica do capitalismo de Nancy Fraser

Abstract

This monograph has the primary aim of presenting, in a comprehensive, synthetic and clear way, the main aspects of the critique of capitalism elaborated by the American philosopher Nancy Fraser in her most recent works, mainly her books Capitalism: a conversation in critical theory, and Cannibal capitalism. To achieve this aim, I carried out a bibliographical research, investigating several texts that were published by the author throughout the 21st century and that form her critical understanding of capitalism as an institutionalized social order in which the economy is geared towards the endless production of profit, cannibalizing its own essential background conditions, namely: social reproduction, non-human nature and democratic politics. I have divided my presentation of this critical theory of capitalism as a society rife with crisis tendencies and structural injustices into three parts. Firstly, I present the expanded conception of capitalism as an institutionalized social order. Secondly, I present the contradictory relations of the capitalist economy with social reproduction, non-human nature and democratic politics, relations that generate structural injustices. Finally, I present the conception, proposed by Fraser, of socialism as a society emancipated from the relations of contradiction and domination that are characteristic of capitalism.