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The aim of the article is to analyze certain elements of the critique of feminist political economy that can contribute to an understanding of femicide. This critique includes the theory of value-dissociation in conjunction with other ideas of contemporary Marxist feminism and coincides with a number of findings of traditional research of femicide, in addition to making new contributions to explain this form of violence, by clarifying the dialectic relationship between patriarchy and capitalism, in theoretical-methodological coordination with Critical Theory. The purpose is to analyze the social historical constellation that explains the relationship between patriarchy and capitalism —its immanent logic and dialectical relationship— from a perspective of negative totality that makes visible, at least at a first approximation level, some of the articulations between the different dimensions of social life that can contribute to the explanation of femicidal violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I set out to sketch a series of critical approaches to racism in Mexico. For this purpose I take the migrant caravan, which I propose as an image that problematizes the reality of racism in our country inasmuch as it questions Mexicans' self-image as an inclusive society, respectful of diversity and not racist. The aim is not to carry out an exhaustive sociological exploration of the issue, but to reconfigure an image that is widespread in the public opinion about this matter, on the basis of a sample of journalistic sources, opinion polls and analyses of government institutions. At the end, this reflection serves to point out the political and theoretical implications of the predominant discourse of mestizaje, or racial blending, in Mexico, as well as the consequences of giving priority to culturalist analysis. In this article I resort to the dialectical approach to think about the tensions and inherent conflicts of sociocultural differences, taking as the anchor of my argument certain proposals from the negative critical theory of the School of Frankfurt, as well as some ideas from critical sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]