Real Estate Boom,Commoditization and Crisis of Social Reproduction in Rural China
How to properly deal with the relationship between social reproduction and capital accumula-tion is a major issue facing the times under the condition of market economy.Taking PY County in Henan Province as a typical case,this paper deeply analyzes how capital(accumulation)has gradually destroyed the social reproduction system in rural China in recent years and the adverse consequences.The study found that in the past decade,due to the massive expansion of capital and the assistance of local government,two key social reproduction institutions in rural PY County-education and marriage-have been gradually commoditized,becoming tools for capital profit and sources of accumulation.The commoditization of education and marriage forced rural families to participate in the real estate mar-ket,which,while driving the big boom in the real estate market in PY County,put enormous eco-nomic pressure on rural families,triggered a large outflow of rural female labor force and left many rural families with heavy debts.The result has been an adverse impact on two other institutions of so-cial reproduction:a breakdown in care and financial support for the elder and a sharp decline in the ru-ral birth rate.This means that the social space in rural China,where a farming family can reproduce its population in a low-cost,relatively non-commoditized way,is disappearing.The research shows that the market economy both needs a non-commoditized field of social reproduction and tends to erode or destroy social reproduction.In view of this,it is a must to strive to overcome the rapacious con-quest of social reproduction by capital.
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