Social Reproduction in Dispute: A Debate Between Autonomists and Marxists

Paul Varela argues that, by dissolving the distinction between value-producing and social reproductive labor, Allesandra Mezzadri’s critique of social reproduction theory fetishizes a purportedly autonomous sphere of subsistence production. Contra Mezzadri, Varela argues that Marxist theory must analyze the relationship between production and social reproduction without collapsing the distinction between the two.