The possibilities of crisis inscribed in the reproduction of social capital

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the process of reproduction of social capital in order to identify in this process the possibilities of crisis which are inscribed in it. This is a theoretical analysis of economic crises that recovers Marx's method of investigation, taking the concept of contradiction as an analytical tool. First, it presents a review of the meaning of the term contradiction in Marx's works and especially in the passages in which the author deals with the analysis of the possibilities of crisis. Next, Marx's reproduction schemes are used in order to identify the points at which existing contradictions pose possibilities of crisis inscribed in the reproduction of social capital. By "possibility of crisis" we understand the crisis in its abstract form. Thus, it is concluded that the understanding of concrete crises, therefore real, require several mediations, which are not contemplated in the reproduction schemes given their abstract nature.