You can read all about that HERE! (This is a paper modified from a presentation we recently gave at the Historical Materialism conference in Montréal).
femininity/
masculinity?
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well, yes, it's all a little unclear. In a way, capitalism as a system can perhaps be thought of similar to the ouroboros– it is constantly reproducing itself, consuming its surplus workers, multiplying debt, and educating people in a similar cyclical way, producing ideas and workers that will continue to reproduce it.
NO WAY! – It is extremely rare for snakes to die of old age. While capitalism attempts to reproduce the relations of production, those are in no way natural/fixed/infinite... the snake is finite. It will not destroy itself, but it can be killed by a wild boar, a raccoon, a mongoose... an outside force. We cannot wait for capitalism to just end
somehow. A snake cannot die from its own venom. There must be a revolutionary struggle to overthrow it. We must agitate it, disrupt it, and kill the snake. And feed the masses with its flesh!
A few resources on the reproduction on capitalism:
Lefebvre - The Survival of Capitalism: Reproduction of the Relations of Production
Althusser - On the Reproduction of Capitalism