https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Closing-the-Conceptual-Gap https://internationalviewpoint.org/Closing-the-Conceptual-Gap 2015-06-10T07:21:46Z text/html en FTC Manning Marxism Women Sexual politics Features <p>This text raises the question of a <i>unified theory</i> of social relations. Cinzia Arruzza's essay <a href='https://internationalviewpoint.org/Remarks-on-Gender' class="spip_in">“Remarks on Gender”</a> reminds us of the debates, left dormant for decades, around creating a unified theory of capital. However, Arruzza's path toward that unification is one that abdicates the possibility of locating gender and race as part of the abstract, logical, or “essential mechanisms” of capitalism, opting instead to incorporate these pervasive relations as aspects of capitalism's historical and concrete unfolding.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-Sexual-politics-" rel="directory">Sexual politics</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Marxism-+" rel="tag">Marxism</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Women-+" rel="tag">Women</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Sexual-politics-299-+" rel="tag">Sexual politics</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Features-301-+" rel="tag">Features</a>