What Being Anti-Capitalist Means: A Constitutive Approach
This article shows how the constitutive approach of communication (CCO) allows to study an anticapitalistic organization. More precisely, the aim is to understand how the constitutive paradigm enables to grab anticapitalism through the meticulous observation of the relation between various actors (human and non-human). The article shows that anticapitalism is being worked from the inside, meaning that it is done, but also undone through communication practices. The CCO approach is operationalized to understand what being anticapitalistic means through the close ethnographic study of a free school (UPop Montreal). The article wishes to answer the following question: “what does it mean to be anticapitalistic?” The main answer is that anticapitalism is moved by processes of differentiations which modify how the organization relates to its ideological positioning. The article proposes a novel and original perspective to seize the intricacies of anticapitalism through the close study of interactions.