Rupturing the Dialectic

The Struggle Against Work

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Harry Cleaver: Rupturing the Dialectic (2016, AK Press)

200 pages

English language

Published Aug. 1, 2016 by AK Press.

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978-1-84935-227-7
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I do not typically care for Marxist books. They are almost always unreadably academic. This one has its moments. But it is actually worth the slog through those moments. Thinking about the value of labor as being fundamentally about its use for controlling people is incredibly helpful when trying to parse out some of the decisions and responses that elites make on a day to day. Thinking about what elites do as always in response to what we do is also extremely helpful. And we very much need as much work against work as we can get. 100% agree that all our struggles should be leading towards less work and more commons. Some really useful stuff in here.

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  • Socialism