Date of Award

5-13-2021

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Department of Politics and Government: Political Science

First Advisor

Kam Shapiro

Abstract

Financialization transforms capitalism from the Lacanian “All” to the “non-All”. It can adapt to the infinite variations of class structures under capitalism because it subjects the very form of capitalist accumulation to risk through financial speculation. This variability and durability is potentially of interest to anti-capitalists who seek to avoid the pitfalls of twentieth century communism in the pursuit of an economy not based in exploitation. By investigating the relationship between Modern Monetary Theory and financialization under capitalism, new possibilities for an anti-essentialist and infinitely variable communist non-All begin to emerge.

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Imported from McCarthy_ilstu_0092N_11960.pdf

DOI

https://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2021.20211012065804597390.999972

Page Count

75

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