ABSTRACT
Chapter 5, “Extraction, Intimacy, and the Kinship”, critically considers the idea that material and social necessity condition the possibility of relations of trust and care fostered in familiar constructions that respond to, and positively acknowledge the conditions that characterize biological social life: embodied, relational, vulnerable. More specifically, by examining a key insight made by Rosa Luxemburg in her analysis of “So-Called Primitive Accumulation” – accumulation by dispossession is part of the structure of the survival of capitalism, to borrow from Freud, it is the death drive of capitalism – the text moves to an analysis of the “monstrosity of love” in the state via Hegel, and alternative approaches to kinship.
