Abstract
To defend the thesis of “permanent violence” in Yemen that leads to state failure and in the context of the structural crisis of capital (where Keynesianism has reached its structural limits), this article will look at the Yemeni war through a Marxist lens. It aims to analyze the deep sociological roots of the Yemeni war through the laws of capital as presented by Marx and to show why the Yemeni war is a goal in itself for Imperialism. Three main laws of capital are considered: (1) the general law of capital accumulation developed in Volume I of Das Kapital, (2) the law of the “transformation” of value into price as presented in Volume III of Das Kapital, and (3) the law relating to the contradiction between production and consumption (leading to a crisis of overproduction and a crisis of underconsumption) that was developed by Marx in the Grundrisse, in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, and by contemporary Marxist author, Istvan Mészáros. All of these laws are all tied to the Marxist “law of value” which refers to the idea that socially necessary labor time acts as the ultimate regulating force in exchange and production under Imperialism.
Highlights
To defend this thesis of “permanent violence” in Yemen that leads to state failure and in the context of the structural crisis of capital, this article will look at the Yemeni war through Marxist theory
American militarism has a fundamental place in the economy
This flaw refers to the metabolic divide developed by Marx: it is the irreparable divide between value and labor that exists in the process of capital accumulation based on the growing expulsion of social labor from the sphere of production
Summary
Even though the corona pandemic has been roaring worldwide since March 2020, the war in Yemen is still ongoing with no signs of slowing down. To defend this thesis of “permanent violence” in Yemen that leads to state failure and in the context of the structural crisis of capital (with the end of Keynesianism), this article will look at the Yemeni war through Marxist theory. It aims to analyze the deep sociological roots of the Yemeni war through the laws of capital. Such a Marxist lens will allow interested readers to adopt a more class-conscious approach when trying to understand or analyze the situation in Yemen or in other devastated Arab countries that exhibit state failure. The third section relates the Marxist rationale to the war itself
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