Journal of Law and Political Economy

This essay describes three new versions of socialist feminism, briefly traces their genealogies, and shows how they address the economic and social crises we face today. Antiwork theory proposes basing individual and societal value on support for life rather than on production and suggests certain nonreformist reforms—a universal basic income and thirty-hour workweek—to advance the struggle to reach such a world. Care theorists share the central value of supporting life and its reproduction and propose ways toward these goals, including abolition of the family. The third approach puts forth new concepts of labor and class and deepens our understanding of the crises faced by global finance capitalism by injecting perspectives from struggles in the global South. All are concerned with how to produce changes in subjectivity adequate to support these struggles and to build a new society based on socialist principles.