When the Crisis Is Not a Crisis

We appear to be experiencing an increasing divergence between crises of social reproduction and crises of capital. The nature of capital’s dependence on socially reproduced labour power, which generates a tendency for crises of social reproduction to precipitate crises of capital, is changing. As a result, systemic disruptions to the conditions required to sustain and reproduce human life are posing increasingly less of a threat to the continued reproduction of capital. However, when crises of social reproduction fail to translate to crises of capital, they tend to be met with increasing institutional apathy: the crisis is not a crisis.