The spanish reactionary left. The conflict between the taxi and the platforms Uber and Cabify as a case study

Abstract

This paper takes as a case study the recent conflict between the taxi sector, on the one hand, and those companies holding VTC (Spanish acronym for Transport Vehicle with Drive) licenses, on the other, to underscore the reactionary nature of the political program the Spanish left is proposing to the working class. It is argued in such respect that there are two determinants of the alienated subject of social life (i.e., capital) at stake in the alignment of these organisationsvwith the interest of small property and small capital, namely: the qualitative
differentiation between individual capitals based on their respective valorisation capacities, first; and the separation of the particular forms
of surplus value (interest, industrial profit and rent) and their respective embodiment into different social subjects, second. The analysis shows that both determinants are closely interrelated, being the former the material basis for the plenty unfolding of the latter. Moreover, the reconstruction and actualisation of the forms of socialism or communism expounded by Marx and Engels in The Communist Manifesto, proves that postulates vindicated by the Spanish left around the taxi – VTC conflict correspond point by point with the socialism.
specific content of the so-called pettybourgeois.