THE POLITICAL-ECONOMY OF AIDS AMONG DRUG-USERS IN THE UNITED-STATES -BEYOND BLAMING THE VICTIM OR POWERFUL OTHERS

In AIDS research, political economy commonly refers to the holistic de scription of the contexts in which HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is transmitted as well as to a political strategy for redirecting blam e from victims to powerful others. This article suggests that a more f ully developed political-economic theory should undertake a Marxism-in spired reexamination of the principles of social reproduction through which human relationships are created in capitalist cosmology.