Resumen

SUAREZ, María Victoria. Communal system, work and expanded reproduction of life: towards alternative ways to produce and live. A case study in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Economía y Sociedad [online]. 2019, vol.24, n.56, pp.75-89. ISSN 2215-3403.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/eys.24-56.5.

The objective of this work is to analyze the complementarity and integrality between the economic, productive and non-economic aspects (particularly social-emotional) in Colonia Jaime, by identifying the daily process that transforms the individual into a collective and to what extent this dynamic makes possible the development of communal productive forces without breaking their own essence. The study revolves around two central issues: 1) what it means to stay together to benefit from common work in Colonia Jaime and 2) how the processes of collective appropriation of tools and technologies that are by nature individual are manifested in daily productive work. These two issues provide conceptual elements that allow us to understand how the development of the productive forces does not necessarily imply the dissolution of the communal system, but instead strengthens and reaffirms it, although it always recognizes the presence of contradictions, tensions and conflicts within the own community. Colonia Jaime shows another way of producing food and living, which escapes the system assigned by capitalist logic. The examples drawn show that the theory of value is thought from the co-production and collaboration between human beings and nature and among themselves. The methodological strategy has three main aspects: analysis of documentary sources; Interviews and participant observation.

Palabras clave : economy for life; productive forces; communal system.

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