Monatsarchive: November 2013

In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism

Karl Marx remarked that the only way to write about the origins of capitalism is in the letters of blood and fire used to drive workers from the common lands, forests, and waters in the sixteenth century. In this collection of essays, George Caffentzis argues that the same is true for the annals of twenty-first-century capitalism. Information technology, immaterial production, financialization, and globalization have been trumpeted as inaugurating a new phase of capitalism that puts it beyond its violent origins. Instead of being a period of major social and economic novelty, however, the course of recent decades has been a return to the fire and blood of struggles at the advent of capitalism.

Lucien van der Walt / Michael Schmidt
Schwarze Flamme
Revolutionäre Klassenpolitik im Anarchismus und Syndikalismus
Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und mit einem Nachwort versehen von
Andreas Förster und Holger Marcks
Deutsche Erstausgabe
Großformat, Broschur
560 Seiten
€ (D) 39,90
€ (A) 41,10
ISBN 978-3-89401-783-5