After Qatar 2022: 7 Theses on contemporary migratory capitalism

Abstract

A few months after the celebration of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, this article sheds light on some controversial aspects related to this great event, which focus on the relationship between migration, capital and labor. In this sense, its objective is to build an analytical frame of reference to understand the geopolitical background of this world from the perspective of capital as theorized by Karl Marx and enriched by various Marxist traditions. Today, capitalism has become an immeasurable whole. Its empirical representation, through the inventory of its forms, remains the greatest theoretical challenge. It does not exist, but through its multiple effects: poverty, unemployment, pleonexia, ecocide, democratic authoritarianism, among others. Capitalism consists of a contradictory structure of historical relations of antagonistic forces that exercises supreme domination over human and natural life. In this article, it is intended to illuminate, from the work of Marx, one of its contemporary aspects that is migratory capitalism, through seven theses on contemporary migrations.