Capitalismo y pueblos indígenas en el Chaco argentino: formas y determinaciones de una subjetividad productiva

Abstract

The indigenous people of the Argentinean Chaco constitute a laboring population displaced from rural production, as it increasingly becomes in relative excess for capital’s requirements. This paper aims to address the process of progressive mutilation of their productive attributes, starting by unfolding its general determinations up to reaching the specific concrete forms in which the former realize themselves in the case under consideration. Consequently, we start by developing the material determinations of labor as an inherent condition for human life, to advance then into the determination of human productive subjectivity within the capitalist mode of production. We thus face the deprivation imposed upon significant portions of the laboring population, to exercise their capacity to actively take part in the process of social production and consumption. Next we unfold the expressions taken by the mutilation of indigenous people’s attributes as subjects of the labor process: the limitation in their participation -as independent producers and seasonal workers- in different crops, declining wages, the sale of domestic labor products below their value, their generalized constitution into beneficiaries of social assistance programs.